Laws of the United States Relating to the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors: From August 11, 1790 to March 3, 1887, with a Tabulated Statement of Appropriations and AllotmentsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 - 579 páginas |
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... dollars for Massachusetts : making surveys of the following places , to wit ... sand . Surveys at Edgartown . The bar at the mouth of Merrimack river , and ... dollars for Connecticut : making a survey of Saugatuck river and harbour , and ...
... dollars for Massachusetts : making surveys of the following places , to wit ... sand . Surveys at Edgartown . The bar at the mouth of Merrimack river , and ... dollars for Connecticut : making a survey of Saugatuck river and harbour , and ...
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... sand dollars . For defraying the expenses incidental to making exami- nations and surveys , authorized by act of thirtieth of April , one thousand eight hundred and twenty - four , thirty thou- sand dollars . SEC . 2. And be it further ...
... sand dollars . For defraying the expenses incidental to making exami- nations and surveys , authorized by act of thirtieth of April , one thousand eight hundred and twenty - four , thirty thou- sand dollars . SEC . 2. And be it further ...
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... dollars . For the completion of the breakwater at the mouth of the Merrimack river , four thousand nine hundred dollars . For repairing Plymouth beach , six hundred dollars . For the breakwater at Hyannis , Massachusetts , five thou- sand ...
... dollars . For the completion of the breakwater at the mouth of the Merrimack river , four thousand nine hundred dollars . For repairing Plymouth beach , six hundred dollars . For the breakwater at Hyannis , Massachusetts , five thou- sand ...
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... dollars . water . For filling up and securing a breach in the south embank- Presque Isle . ment at Presque Isle ... sand dollars . For extending and securing the works at Huron river , Ohio , six thousand seven hundred dollars . For ...
... dollars . water . For filling up and securing a breach in the south embank- Presque Isle . ment at Presque Isle ... sand dollars . For extending and securing the works at Huron river , Ohio , six thousand seven hundred dollars . For ...
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... sand dollars . For preserving the point of land leading to the fort and light - house at the Gurnet , in Duxbury , by burdles or double ranges of piles , five thousand dollars . For the preservation of Rainsford island , in the harbor ...
... sand dollars . For preserving the point of land leading to the fort and light - house at the Gurnet , in Duxbury , by burdles or double ranges of piles , five thousand dollars . For the preservation of Rainsford island , in the harbor ...
Términos y frases comunes
Act making appropriations America in Congress Approved Arkansas Bayou breakwater canal Cape Fear River carried to surplus channel CHAP Congress assembled Connecticut construction Continuing improvement continuing the improvement Creek Cumberland River Delaware Delaware River eighteen hundred expended fifteen thousand dollars fifty thousand dollars five hundred dollars five thousand dollars Florida following sums further enacted harbor of refuge House of Representatives hundred and fifty hundred thousand dollars Illinois Improving harbor June 14 June 23 Lake lands lars Louisiana ment Michigan Mississippi River Missouri River mouth navigation North Carolina Ohio River otherwise appropriated piers Proviso Red River repair Saint sand dollars Secretary Secretary of War Senate and House Sodus Bay surplus fund Tennessee Tennessee River thereof thirty thousand dollars thou thousand dol thousand eight hundred thousand five hundred tinuing improvement tion Total treasury not otherwise twenty thousand dollars twenty-five thousand dollars United Virginia Wisconsin York
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Página 118 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Página 226 - That five per centum of the proceeds of the sales of public lands lying within said State which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to the said State...
Página 90 - Moines shall be and forever remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or other charge whatever, for any property of the United States...
Página 118 - Beginning one marine league at sea due west from the point where the fortysecond parallel of north latitude intersects the same; thence northerly, at the same distance from the line of the coast lying west and opposite the State, including all islands within the jurisdiction of the United States, to a point due west and opposite the middle of the north ship channel of the Columbia River...
Página 115 - State for the purpose of making public roads and internal improvements as the legislature shall direct; provided, the foregoing propositions herein offered are on the condition that the said convention which shall form the constitution of said State shall provide, by a clause in said constitution, or an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that said State shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within the same by the United States, or with any regulations...
Página 120 - ... beginning at a point on the western boundary of the state of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same; thence west on said parallel to the eastern...
Página 76 - And there shall be and hereby is granted to each new State that shall be hereafter admitted into the Union, upon such admission, so much land as, including such quantity as may have been granted to such State before its admission and while under a Territorial Government, for purposes of internal improvement as aforesaid, as shall make five hundred thousand acres of land, to be selected and located as aforesaid.
Página 144 - ... an act to grant a certain quantity of land to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and to connect the same by a canal in the territory of Wisconsin...
Página 348 - Where said works are done by contract, such contract shall be made after sufficient public advertisement for proposals, in such manner and form as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and such contracts shall be made with the lowest responsible bidders, accompanied by such securities as the Secretary of War shall require, conditioned for the faithful prosecution and completion of the work according to such contract^ and for the prompt payment of all liabilities incurred in the prosecution thereof...
Página 355 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...