Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1915 |
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Page 34 - That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money In the 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...
Page 189 - June 30, 1896, resulting in a channel 150 feet wide and 12 feet deep at mean low water from that depth in the Choptank River to the railroad wharf, a distance of nearly a mile.
Page 45 - Representatives, in the same manner to examine and report through the Chief of Engineers upon any projects heretofore adopted by the Government or upon which appropriations have been made, and to report upon the desirability of continuing the same or upon any modifications thereof which may be deemed desirable. This provision of the law was extended by act of March 3...
Page 270 - Bay the channel is to be 10 feet deep at mean low water and 200 feet wide. From the...
Page 31 - Rivers ; removing obstructions in Mississippi River; gauging waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries; examinations and surveys at South Pass; Mississippi River; maintenance of South Pass Channel, Mississippi River; operating snag boats on Ohio River; operating and care of canals, etc.
Page 45 - That in the investigation and study of these questions consideration shall be given only to their bearing upon the improvement of navigation...
Page 31 - The funds with which the works for the improvement of rivers and harbors were prosecuted during the past fiscal year were derived from the appropriations made by the river and harbor act approved February 27, 1911, and the sundry civil act approved March 4, 1911, from such appropriations as have been provided by other general acts and by special acts of Congress, and from the available balances of former appropriations.
Page 509 - ... months of the year. The original project of 1881 was to clear the stream of these obstructions so as to obtain from its mouth to Stantonsburg a depth of not less than 3 feet during the higher stages, about 9 months of the year, at a cost estimated in 1888 at $77,500. The project...
Page 74 - Engineers for 1881, page 502, and is to create at the outer bar a permanent channel 1,000 feet wide, and at least 17 feet deep at mean low water by constructing two...
Page 530 - June 25, 1910, contemplated securing a channel, by dredging, 10 feet deep at mean low water, beginning at a point 2,000 feet westward of Beaufort Harbor, and extending up along the wharves at Morehead City for a distance of 3,800 feet, the lower 2,800 feet having a width of 100 feet and the upper 1,000 feet a width of 200 feet, at an estimated cost of $19,000, with $2,000 annually for maintenance, in accordance with plan, with map, printed in House Document No.