River and Harbor Appropriation Bill, Fiscal Year 1918, Hearings on H.R. 4285, May 1-5, 19171917 - 170 pages |
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35 feet 40 feet adopted allotment amount appropriation approved authorized boats BOOHER canal carried CHAIRMAN channel Chief of Engineers Colonel Columbia River commerce committee Congaree River considered continuing improvement contract cost COSTELLO course Creek Delaware Delaware River DEMPSEY Diamond Reef dredging DUPRÉ East River estimate expenditure expense FREAR funds GALLAGHER Government plant GRAY harbor bill Hell Gate House Document Numbered HULBERT important included instance involved KENNEDY KETTNER Lake Lake Pontchartrain last bill locks and dams Macombs Dam Bridge maintenance Malden Rivers matter of fact ment Mississippi River naval navigation necessary needs NEWCOMER OSBORNE passed Port proposed proposition question railroad reason recommended report submitted river and harbor second session Secretary Secretary of War Senate simply Sixty-fourth Congress Skagit River stream submitted in House SWITZER tion TREADWAY understand urgent waterway
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Page 68 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 61 - Provided, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States for acquiring any lands required for the purpose of this improvement; in all, $880,000.
Page 147 - SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to prescribe such regulations for the use. administration, and navigation of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 147 - ... proceedings and any award that may be made thereunder shall be paid by such State, or reclamation, flood control, or drainage district, or other public agency as aforesaid, to secure which payment the Secretary of War may require such State, or reclamation, flood control, or drainage district, or other public agency as aforesaid, to execute a proper bond in such amount as he may deem necessary before said proceedings are commenced.
Page 10 - Engineers and the Secretary of War, another allotment or division should be made of the same. Any balances remaining to the credit of the consolidated items shall be carried to the credit of the respective aggregate amounts appropriated for the consolidated items.
Page 147 - ... regulations shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction thereof in any district court of the United States within whose territorial jurisdiction such offense may have been committed, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment (in the case of a natural person) not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the court.
Page 41 - Other manufactures are paying heavy dividends and there is no reason in the world why we should not be doing the same.
Page 147 - States covering all matters not specifically delegated by law to some other executive department...
Page 39 - In the event of the inability of the Secretary of War to make a satisfactory contract for the voluntary purchase of said canal and its appurtenances, he...
Page 106 - ... residents, or for the extension of needed police regulation ; and (5) when they are valuable by reason of their adaptability for prospective town uses. But the mere fact that their value is enhanced by reason of their nearness to the corporation would not give ground for their annexation if it did not appear that such value was enhanced on account of their adaptability to town use.