Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1889 |
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act of August Amount appropriated amount expended appropriated by act Assistant Engineer August 11 balance available bank barges Bayou boats bridge canal channel Chief of Engineers City commerce compliance with requirements construction contract Corps of Engineers cost Creek cribs cubic yards Davis Island depth dike dredging ending June 30 examination excavation exclusive of liabilities expended during fiscal expended in fiscal feet wide fiscal year ending Fountain City freight harbor acts hurdle Illinois Illinois River improvement inches Lake Michigan liabilities outstanding July linear feet locks and dams logs Louis low water low-water miles Mississippi River Missouri Missouri River Moines Rapids Moline Money statement mouth Muskingum River navigation north pier obstructions Ohio Ohio River operations piles pounds profitably expended rafts removed repairs respectfully revetment riprap river and harbor Rock Island Rapids shoals shore snag-boat snags south pier steam-boats stone Submitted in compliance survey timber tons Total upper width
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Page 1710 - JOINT AND CONCURRENT RESOLUTION instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress to use all means proper in their legislative capacity to secure an appropria» tion of $50,000 for the purpose of straightening Grand River.
Page 1714 - River, which sum shall be immediately available and shall he expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi River...
Page 2135 - JUDGE. 4 2. All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of the existence of all sanitary districts organized under this act. Upon the organization of any sanitary district under this act the county judge shall call an election to elect officers and cause notice thereof to be posted or published, and perform all other acts in reference to...
Page 2137 - ... public notice of the terms and conditions upon which the contract is to be let having been given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in said district, and the said board shall have the power and authority to reject any and all bids, and re-advertise...
Page 1817 - And provided further. That the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this Act until the project for the proposed work shall have been adopted by law : Provided further.
Page 1868 - WM. C. ENDICOTT, Secretary of War. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. LETTER OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY, Washington, UC, December 6, 1SS8.
Page 1673 - Eiver, a distance of 191 miles, the natural depth at low water being in many cases from 3J to 4 feet. The initial point of the work for the lower portion is St. Louis, the programme being to make the work continuous, working down-stream from that city. Work at detached points has also been carried on under allotments specially made by law for the improvement of landings and the protection of local interests. The plan of general improvement, contemplates a reduction of the river to an approximate...
Page 2137 - All taxes so levied and certified shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and by the same officers as State and county taxes, and shall be paid over by the officer collecting the same to the treasurer of the sanitary district, in the manner and at the time provided by the general revenue law.
Page 2136 - ... five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 2082 - In 1872 an examinai ion and report were made, as called for by the river and harbor act of that year. This plan contemplated a breakwater in 24 feet of water. No action was taken on this report. The character of the improvement of this harbor is somewhat different from that of other points on the Great Lakes. Most of the improvements have consisted in deepening the...