Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1883 - Engineering Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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12 feet act approved act passed August Amount appropriated amount available amount expended appropriated by act Assistant Engineer bank barges Bayou boats bridge brush canal cents channel Chief of Engineers chute commenced completion of existing construction contract Corps of Engineers crib cubic yards depth dike dredging East Saginaw ending June 30 excavation exclusive of outstanding existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal feet long feet wide fiscal year ending harbor Hennepin Canal high water hurdle Illinois River improvement inches Island jetty Lake Lake Michigan Lake Winnebago linear feet lock low water low-water mattress miles Mississippi River Missouri River Money statement mouth navigation November obstructions October operations outstanding liabilities July pier piles pounds profitably expended railroad removed repairs respectfully revetment riprap rock Saint Paul season Secretary of War September shoals snags steamboat steamer stone Sturgeon Bay survey timber tons Total vessels width
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Page 1657 - ... a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
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Page 1608 - No bridge shall be erected or maintained under the authority of this set which shall at any time substantially or materially obstruct the free navigation of said river; and if any bridge erected under such authority shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, obstruct such navigation, he is hereby authorized to cause such change...
Page 1789 - The Illinois and Michigan canal, or other canal or waterway owned by the State shall never be sold or leased until the specific proposition for the sale or lease thereof shall first have been submitted to a vote of the people of the State at a general election, and have been approved by a majority of all the votes polled at such election.
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Page 1438 - AT MEEKER'S ISLAND, MINNESOTA. The project for this work is given in the Report of the Chief of Engineers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, and...
Page 1790 - Constitution as was not separately submitted to be voted on by articles and sections, shall be the supreme law of the State of Illinois, on and after...
Page 1657 - Second, that seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the use and support of a state university, to be selected by the governor of said state, subject to the approval of the commissioner of the general land office, and to be appropriated and applied in such manner as the legislature of said state may prescribe for the purpose aforesaid, but for no other purpose.
Page 1663 - May 23, 1895, with the original now in this office, and that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Michigan, at Lansing, this twenty-third day of May, in the year [L. s.] of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. JOS. W. SELDEN, Deputy Secretary of State.
Page 1547 - ... year, the Secretary of War shall, on the first Monday of January of each year, ascertain from the expenses of the previous year what tolls will probably pay the expenses of the current year; and he shall fix and declare the rate...