Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 - Engineering Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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allotment Amount expended appropriations approved Average Balance unexpended barge Bend boat boilers bridge building Cairo Canal cent channel Chief of Engineers City Coal COMMERCIAL STATISTICS completed construction CONTRACTS IN FORCE cost per cubic cubic yards Date depth dredge dumper end of month expended during fiscal expenditures Fair feet 6 inches floating plant Ft.in funds gauge hull improvement Iowa Jeffersonville July June 12 June 30 labor Lake levee district linear feet long tons machinery maintenance Memphis ment miles below Cairo Miscellaneous expenses Miss Mississippi River Commission Missouri River navigation Number Ohio Ohio River operations Oreg Orleans pipe pounds pump repairs revetment Revolutions per minute river and harbor road Rock Island sand scow Secretary Short tons square feet steamer Steel sundry civil survey Tenn tion Total cost Total field cost United Vicksburg Wood
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Page 3896 - That in expending the money appropriated by this act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other government services, and also, subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such government transportation...
Page 3861 - President he, and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial German Government; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States.
Page 3874 - Reserve Corps, from those duly qualified and registered pursuant to section twenty-three of the act of Congress approved January, twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three...
Page 3462 - It shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi river; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof ; prevent destructive floods ; promote and facilitate commerce, trade and the postal service...
Page 3868 - ... for the payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court...
Page 3878 - ... knowingly make, or be a party to the making, of any false, improper or incorrect registration, classification, physical or mental examination, deferment, induction, enrollment or muster, and any person who shall...
Page 3880 - War, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than twelve months, or both.
Page 3918 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Page 3900 - 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 3878 - Columbia, and all persons designated or appointed under regulations prescribed by the President, whether such appointments are made by the President himself or...