Report of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Harbors |
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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 hull improvement Jeffersonville July June 30 labor Lake levee district levee line linear feet Location long tons machinery maintenance Memphis ment miles below Cairo Miscellaneous expenses 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 Steel sundry civil surveys Tenn tion Total cost Total field cost traffic unexpended at end United Vicksburg Wood
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Page 3935 - ... 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.
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