In the Matter of the Application of the Watrous Island Boom Co. for Approval of Plans in Rainy River: Decision and Order of Approval |
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50 feet American side application approval of plans April BACKUS Big Fork River Black River boats boom company booms in Rainy boundary line Canadian Government Canadian side Capt CASGRAIN Chapleau Chief of Engineers clusters of piles construction copy department of public Dominion Government dredging driving EDWARD WELLINGTON BACKUS Fort Frances Giles interests of navigation International Falls International Joint Commission Island Boom Co Lake Laurel Little Fork River logs and forest matter Minn Minnesota shore mouth of Black mouth of Little navigable channel navigation interests objections obstructions Ontario operating opposite lot Ottawa piers plans for booms plans submitted Potter proposed boom public works department pulp wood Rainy River Navigation reason remove river?-A ROCKWOOD Secretary Secretary of War section 25 Spooner steamboat steamers streams STREETER suggestion TAWNEY testimony THOMPSON timber tion tributaries TURNER undersigned Watrous Island Boom Western Canal width WITNESS
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Page 55 - States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or nil, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States...
Page 82 - An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 83 - That the dumping and all operations connected therewith shall be subject to the supervision and approval of the Engineer officer of the United States Army in charge of the locality, who may temporarily suspend the work at any time if in his judgment the interests of navigation so require.
Page 6 - War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 55 - That it is to be understood that this authority does not give any property rights either in real estate or material, or any exclusive privileges: and that it does not authorize any injury to private property or invasion of private rights, or any infringement of Federal, State, or local laws or regulations, nor does it obviate the necessity of obtaining State assent to the work authorized. It merely expresses the assent of the Federal Government so far as concerns the public rights of navigation.
Page 82 - States, is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not 'be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures, in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War...
Page 26 - December 1938, with the original document and record thereof on file and of record in my office, and in my custody as city clerk of said city, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof, and the whole thereof...
Page 46 - The creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is prohibited; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans...
Page 88 - It is agreed that, in addition to the uses, obstructions, and diversions heretofore permitted or hereafter provided for by special agreement between the Parties hereto, no further or other uses or obstructions or diversions, whether temporary or permanent, of boundary waters on either side of the line...
Page 6 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established...