Annual Report of the Secretary of War, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 |
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Page 498 - An act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates upon the subject of roads and canals." It authorized the President to cause surveys and estimates to be made of the routes of such roads and canals...
Page 71 - ... the Secretary of War, upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties. SEC. 5. — That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe...
Page 34 - An act making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works heretofore commenced under the authority of law...
Page 35 - An act to provide for the appointment of a commission of engineers to investigate and report a permanent plan for the reclamation of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi River subject to inundation," I appointed a commission of engineers.
Page 14 - ... protection, preservation, and repair, as far as was possible with the general appropriation made for this purpose, and no other work is contemplated during the current fiscal year for the same reason.
Page 34 - ... Commonwealth, having immediate cognizance of the crime with which such prisoner is charged, or of the court by which such prisoner has been convicted, to appoint a commission of three citizens of this Commonwealth, of whom one shall be of the profession of medicine, and one of the profession of law, whose duty it shall be to inquire into and report upon the mental condition of such prisoner ; and if, in a report signed by a majority or all of the members of such commission, it shall appear that...
Page 266 - ... feet to be upon the prolongation of the present line of the pier, and GO feet in rear as counterforts. The work will be done by hired labor and purchase of materials in open market; agreements have already been made for materials at prices 20 per cent, less than under la-st contract for hemlock timber and iron, 12 per cent, less for pine timber, and .30 per cent, less for stone ; the work will be pushed forward rapidly.
Page 71 - making appropriations for the repair, preservation and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 584 - ... and, further, to inquire into the number and character of the vessels navigating said channel, and the number of trips made by each ; and, if said bridging be practicable, to report what extent of span, or spans, and elevation above the water, will be required iu the construction of such bridge or bridges, so as not seriously to injure the navigation of said channel.
Page 3 - I have the honor to present for your information the following report upon the duties and operations of the Engineer Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872: OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS.