Annual Reports of the War Department, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
act of June allotment amend America in Congress appropriated approved March authorized Average balance unexpended bank barges Bend bled boat boilers bridge Cairo Canal cent channel Chief of Engineers City coal completed Congress assem construction contract cost cubic yards depth District of Columbia dredge ending June 30 feet 6 inches fiscal year ending Galveston gauge harbor act House Document Numbered House of Representa Improving harbor Jeffersonville July June 25 June 30 Lake levee district linear feet maintenance mattress Memphis miles minutes Mississippi River Commission Missouri River mouth navigation nineteen hundred Ohio River operations Oreg Park plant Point Point Pleasant pounds Proviso repairs report submitted revetment river and harbor sand scow season Secretary Secretary of War Senate and House shoal square steamer Steel street submitted in House sundry civil act survey thousand dollars tion tives tons Total towing United Washington Wood
Popular passages
Page 2810 - On the port side a red light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw- the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...
Page 2810 - On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of...
Page 3000 - That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid 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 2809 - ... uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of twenty points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light ten points on each side of the ship, viz. from right ahead to two points abaft the beam...
Page 2899 - For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors: repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos...
Page 2838 - That the Secretary of War may enter into a contract or contracts for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the said project, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law...
Page 2685 - ... charged by law to determine such questions in each case to call for such advice. The foregoing provisions of this act shall not apply to the Capitol Building of the United States and the building of the Library of Congress. The Commission shall also advise generally upon questions of art when required to do so by the President, or by any committee of either House of Congress.
Page 2821 - That such structures may be built under authority of the Legislature of a State across rivers and other waterways, the navigable portions of which lie wholly within the limits of a single State, provided the location and plans, thereof are submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and by the Secretary of War...
Page 2830 - Any person furnishing repairs, supplies, towage, use of dry dock or marine railway, or other necessaries, to any vessel, whether foreign or domestic, upon the order of the owner of such vessel, or of a person authorized by the owner, shall have a maritime lien on the vessel, which may be enforced by suit in rem, and it shall not be necessary to allege or prove that credit was given to the vessel.
Page 2897 - For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars.