Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 2, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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100 feet wide 12 feet act of August act of September amount available July Amount estimated amount expended Appendix appropriated by act approved August 11 available for fiscal breakwater bulkhead line channel Chief of Engineers commerce completion of existing compliance with requirements construction contract Corps of Engineers Creek cubic yards dike dredging East River easterly ending June 30 entrance estimated cost exclusive of liabilities existing project expended during fiscal feet at mean feet deep feet long fiscal year ending harbor acts harbor lines Island jetty last fiscal ledge liabilities outstanding July Lieut Long Island Sound low-water mean low water miles mouth navigation obstructions outstanding liabilities pier pier-head line removal required for completion requirements of sections riprap river and harbor Rock Secretary of War September 19 shoal shore snags southerly street Submitted in compliance survey tons vessels westerly wharf wharves width Willets Point York Harbor
Popular passages
Page 353 - That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to apply the money herein and hereafter appropriated for improvements of rivers and harbors, other than surveys, estimates and gaugings, in carrying on the various works, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to the Government.
Page 338 - Secretary first giving the parties reasonable opportunity to be heard, to give notice to the persons or corporations owning or controlling such bridge so to alter the same as to render navigation through or under it reasonably free, easy, and unobstructed...
Page 406 - For purchase and binding of professional works of recent date, treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, five hundred dollars ; In all, nine thousand five hundred dollars.
Page 571 - ... vessels seeking it for refuge. The southern (the main) entrance was obstructed by a bar which stretched out from Goat Island, and the general business wharves of the city could not be reached at low tide by vessels drawing more than 8 feet.
Page 338 - If the persons, corporation, or association owning or controlling any railroad or other bridge shall, after receiving notice to that effect, as hereinbefore required, from the Secretary of War, and within the time prescribed by him...
Page 624 - The existing project, on which work was in progress at the beginning of the fiscal year, was completed, without modification, in October, 1911.
Page 690 - That where it is made manifest to the Secretary of War that the establishment of harbor lines is essential to the preservation and protection of harbors he may, and is hereby, authorized to cause such lines to be established, beyond which no piers, wharves, bulkheads, or other works shall be extended or deposits made, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by him...
Page 592 - Judith is in the collection district of Newport, -which is a port of entry. The amount of revenue collected at Newport in the last calendar year was $3,408.83.
Page 301 - The earliest project for the improvement of this harbor was adopted in 1836, the date of the first appropriation, and proposed the construction of an east and west breakwater approaching to within 200 feet of each other, and connecting' at the opening with two parallel piers extending into the lake.
Page 282 - Beach was adopted in 1873, and consisted of a breakwater constructed of timber cribs, filled with stone, inclosing an area which is to be deepened by dredging where necessary. The estimate of the probable cost of the improvement was $1,442,500. The sum of...