Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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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 Columbia River completed Congress assem construction contract cost cubic yards depth District of Columbia dredge ending June 30 feet 6 inches fiscal year ending gauge House Document Numbered House of Representa Improving harbor Island Jeffersonville July June 25 June 30 Lake levee district linear feet maintenance mattress miles minutes Mississippi River Commission Missouri River mouth navigation nineteen hundred Ohio River operations Oreg Park plant Point Point Pleasant pounds Provided repairs report submitted revetment river and harbor Rock 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
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Page 2806 - 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 2806 - ... of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles. (c) On the...
Page 2776 - ... extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers...
Page 2826 - 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 2822 - That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.
Page 2810 - And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and...
Page 2774 - CONTINGENCIES OF THE ARMY: For all contingent expenses of the army not otherwise provided for, and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, forty thousand dollars.
Page 2827 - 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, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named : Improving Harbor at Belfast, Me.
Page 2812 - In all cases only one bond for the proper performance of each contract shall be required, notwithstanding that supplies for more than one department or government establishment are included in such contract. Every purchase or drawing of such supplies from the contractor shall be immediately reported to said committee. No disbursing officer shall be a member of such committee. No department or establishment shall purchase or draw supplies from the common schedule through more than one office or bureau...
Page 2856 - 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...