Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Engineering Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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allotment Amount expended appropriations approved Average balance unexpended bank barge Bend boat bridge Cairo Canal cents per cubic channel Chief of Engineers City Columbia COMMERCIAL STATISTICS completed Congress construction CONTRACTS IN FORCE Creek cubic yards Date depth dredge dumper end of month existing project expended during fiscal expenditures Fair fiscal year ending floating plant Freight funds grade and section hereby House Document Numbered hull improvement inches Iowa Jeffersonville July June 30 labor Lake levee district levee line Location long tons machinery maintenance Memphis ment miles below Cairo Miss Mississippi River Commission Missouri River navigation nineteen hundred Number Ohio River operations Oreg Orleans Park Portland pump repairs revetment river and harbor Rock Island Sacramento River sand scow Short tons square Steel sundry civil surveys Tenn tion Total cost Total field cost traffic unexpended at end United Vicksburg Wood
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Page 3620 - That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 3927 - That in expending the money appropriated by this act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other government services, and also, subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such government transportation...
Page 3621 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 3620 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress that water terminals are essential at all cities and towns located upon harbors or navigable waterways and that at least one public terminal should exist, constructed, owned and regulated by the municipality, or other public agency of the State and open to the use of all on equal terms...
Page 3921 - To enable the Board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war...
Page 3891 - States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 3968 - And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and...
Page 3933 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and in addition thereto shall be removed from office by the governor.
Page 3927 - ... for the payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court...
Page 3946 - An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia...