CONTENTS.

[Alphabetical index will be found at the end of each part, or volume.]

PART I.

OFFICERS OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

STATUS, changes, and distribution of officers of corps, 3.

THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS.....

POST OF WILLETS POINT, NEW YORK.-U. S. ENGINEER SCHOOL.-BAT.
TALION OF ENGINEERS.-ENGINEER DEPOT.

OFFICER IN COMMAND, MAJ. JOHN G. D. KNIGHT, CORPS OF ENGINEERS—

Post of Willets Point, 4; U. S. Engineer School, 5; Battalion of Engineers, Engi-
neer Depot, 6; statement of funds, 7; estimates, 22.

FORTIFICATIONS.

PROJECTS, sites, 7; sea walls and embankments, preservation and repair of fortifi-

cations, new works, appropriations,8; emplacements, continuing contacts, 9,10; sub-

marine mines, defenses of coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, 11; Boston, Mass.,

southeast coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 12; eastern entrance to Long

Island Sound at New York, N. Y.-eastern entrance to harbor, on islands in harbor,

13; on Staten Island, southern entrance to New York Harbor, on Long Island and

Sandy Hook, Delaware River, 14; Baltimore, Md., Washington, D. C., 15; Hamp-

ton Roads, Va., coast of North Carolina, coast of South Carolina, 16; coast of Georgia

and Cumberland Sound, coast of Florida, 17; Pensacola, Fla., Mobile, Ala., and Mis-

sissippi Sound, New Orleans, La., 18; Galveston, Tex., 19; lake ports in New York,

San Diego, Cal., islands in San Francisco Bay, and north side of San Francisco Bay,

Cal., San Francisco, Cal., on south side of bay, 20; mouth of Columbia River, Puget

Sound, 21; estimates for 1898-99, 22.

RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.

GENERAL STATEMENT, 22; establishment of harbor lines, 23; examination of bills

for bridges, Bartrand River, S. C., 24; obstruction of navigable Southern rivers by

the aquatic plant known as the water hyacinth, engineer divisions, 25.

ATLANTIC COAST AND GULF OF MEXICO.

IN THE CHARGE OF LIEUT. COL. A. N. DAMRELL AND MAJ. R. L. HOXIE, Corps of
ENGINEERS-

Lubec Channel, Me., 26; Moosabec Bar, Me., 27; Narraguagus River, Me., break wa-

ter from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Bar Harbor, Me., 28; harbor at Sulli-

van Falls, Me., Union River, Me., 29; Bagaduce River, Me., Penobscot River, Me.,

30; Belfast Harbor, Me., Camden Harbor, Me., 32; Rockland Harbor, Me., 33; Car-

vers Harbor, Vinalhaven, Me., 34; Georges River, Me., Kennebec River, Me.,

35; Sasanoa River, Me., Portland Harbor, Me., 37; Saco River, Me., 39; Bellamy

River, N. H., Cocheco River, N. H., 40; harbor of refuge at Little Harbor, N. H.,

41; removing sunken vessels or craft obstructing or endangering navigation, ex-

aminations and surveys, 42.

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