Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886 - Engineering Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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00 Amount available 100 feet wide 12 feet 1888 Submitted act approved August Amount appropriated amount expended appropriated by act appropriation asked available for fiscal batteries breakwater bridge canal channel Chief of Engineers commerce completion of existing compliance with requirements Congress construction Continuing improvement contract Corps of Engineers Creek cubic yards defense dike dredging ending June 30 estimated cost excavation exclusive of liabilities existing project expended during fiscal expended in fiscal expended to June feet at mean feet deep fiscal year ending guns harbor acts harbor of refuge Island jetty June 14 last fiscal liabilities outstanding July Lieut Long Island Sound mean low water miles Mississippi River mouth navigation Number obstructions outstanding liabilities piers port profitably expended removal repairs required for completion requirements of section riprap river and harbor Sandy Hook Secretary Secretary of War shoals snags Submitted in compliance survey thousand dollars tion vessels width Willets Point
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Page 401 - That any bridge constructed under this act, and according to its limitations, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post-route, upon which, also, no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge...
Page 410 - ... at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges...
Page 403 - ... security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and, to secure that object, the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the currents at all stages, and...
Page 415 - ... 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 or alteration of said bridge to be made as will effectually obviate such obstruction; and all such alterations...
Page 412 - ... shall be made and all such obstructions be removed at the expense of the owner or owners of said bridge.
Page 439 - ... and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; And...
Page 440 - And the services of skilled dranghtsman, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys...
Page 398 - No bridge shall be erected or maintained under the authority of this act 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 »uch navigation.
Page 429 - ... mark, as understood at the point of location, to the bottom chord of the bridge, nor shall the spans of said bridge be less than two hundred...
Page 406 - That if any bridge built under this act shall be constructed as a drawbridge, the same shall be constructed as a pivot drawbridge with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point...