Centennial Celebration of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, April 5 and 6, 1916, Washington, D.C.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 - 196 páginas |
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Página 175 - That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized and requested, to cause a survey to be taken of the coasts of the United States...
Página 176 - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic ocean, excepting such islands as now are or heretofore have been within the limits of...
Página 176 - States, and for introducing among them the habits and arts of civilization, the president of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized...
Página 176 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Página 74 - August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, in the necessary support, maintenance, and repairs of all light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, erected, placed, or sunk before the passing of this act, at the entrance of, or within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of the United States, for rendering the navigation thereof easy and safe, shall be defrayed out of the treasury of the United States.
Página 177 - An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine...
Página 47 - Sciences considered all the work relating to scientific surveys and reported to Congress a plan prepared by a special committee, whose membership included the illustrious names of Marsh, Dana, Rogers, Newberry, Trowbridge, Newcomb, and Agassiz. This report, which was adopted by the academy with only one dissenting vote, grouped all surveys, geodetic, topographic, land parceling, and economic, under two distinct heads — surveys of mensuration and surveys of geology. At that time five independent...
Página 96 - Commencing at the parallel of 54° 40' north latitude, so famous in our history, the line ascends Portland channel to the mountains, which it follows on their summits to the point of intersection with the 141° west longitude, which line it ascends to the Frozen ocean, or, if you- please, to the north pole. This is the eastern boundary, separating this region from the British possessions, and it is borrowed...
Página 176 - That for carrying this act into effect there shall be, and hereby is appropriated, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Página 180 - A trigometrical survey of the coast between these points of which the position shall have been astronomically ascertained ; in the execution of which survey, the position of every distinguishable permanent object should be carefully designated ; and temporary beacons be erected at proper distances on those parts of the coast on which such objects are really to DC found.