Annual Report Upon the Improvement of the Ohio, Monongahela, and Wabash Rivers

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1876
 

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Page 11 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended, or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be reenacted, and published at length.
Page 9 - ... No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes of erecting thereon any armory, arsenal, fort, fortification, navy yard, customhouse, lighthouse, or other public building, of any kind whatever, until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given.
Page 27 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, AA HUMPHREYS, Brigadier General and Chief of Engineers.
Page 10 - That exclusive jurisdiction in and over any land so acquired by the United States shall be, and the same is hereby ceded to the United States, for all purposes except...
Page 109 - 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 45 - ... of floods. When they are submerged a very slight ripple on the surface is all that can indicate their presence. The works themselves were not injured, especially if the lock-gates were opened before the arrival of the flood. The only effect was a slight deposit of sediment in the locks.
Page 11 - That if any person or persons shall willfully or maliciously injure any of the lands, buildings, or other property acquired or held under the provisions of this act, such person or persons shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty dollars...
Page 10 - ... the said United States shall have, hold, use, occupy and own the said land or lands when purchased, and exercise jurisdiction and control over the same and every part thereof, subject to the restrictions hereafter mentioned.
Page 47 - Act to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers," approved March 3, 1875. Under this act the process of ascertaining the amount of compensation for flowage damages arising from these dams is made contingent upon the " opinion of the officer in charge that it is not prudent that the dam or dams be lowered"; and it would seem that the first thing to do would be to ascertain this opinion. The attorney appointed to represent the interests of the United States under this act had a different...
Page 47 - The object of these lines is to hold the matón the surface of the water until sufficiently loaded with stone, otherwise the mat sinks before stone enough have been placed on it, and many stone are wasted in attempting to throw them on the mat when sunk. These lines are easily removed after the mat has sunk, by letting go one end and pulling on the other end. Two more lines are necessary, so that while one set is in use the other may be similarly arranged on the next mat to be sunk. After the mat...

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