Improvement of Rivers and Harbors: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 11616, an Act Authorizing the Construction, Repair, and Preservation of Certain Public Works on Rivers and Harbors, and for Other Purposes, [June 11, 12, 14-18, 1926]. |
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abstraction authorized barge BARNES bill boats BURTON Cape Cod Canal cent CHAIRMAN Chicago River Chief of Engineers commerce committee cost cubic feet DEMPSEY depth District of Chicago diversion from Lake diversion of water dollars estimate fact feet per second flow gentlemen going Government grain House Document Numbered Illinois River Illinois waterway improvement inches interests Kansas City Lake Erie Lake Michigan locks lower MADDEN matter miles Mississippi River Missouri River navigation Ohio permit present proposition purposes railroads reference Rivers and Harbors sanitary district second-feet Secretary Secretary of War Senator COPELAND Senator COUZENS Senator DENEEN Senator FERNALD Senator HOWELL Senator JOHNSON Senator LENROOT Senator RANSDELL Senator WILLIS sewage ship Sioux City Sixty-ninth Congress statement Supreme Court survey TAYLOR territory tion to-day tonnage tons traffic transportation United upper Missouri River vessels water from Lake watershed WILLIAMS WILSON Wisconsin
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Page 55 - States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established,- except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless...
Page 55 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 61 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States...
Page 329 - ... a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page 1 - That the following works of improvement of rivers, harbors,and other waterways are hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans recommended in the...
Page 383 - ... upon the condition that before taking possession it shall pay the net investment of the licensee in the project or projects taken, not to exceed the fair value of the property taken...
Page 383 - The net investment of the licensee in the project or projects so taken and the amount of such severance damages, if any, shall be determined by agreement between the commission and the licensee, and in case they...
Page 111 - That it be distinctly understood that it is the intention of the Secretary of War to submit the questions connected with the work of the sanitary district of Chicago to Congress for consideration and final action, and that this permit shall be subject to such action as may be taken by Congress.
Page 4 - And provided further, That the Government shall not be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this act until the project for the proposed work shall have been adopted by law: Portland Harbor, Maine, along the waterfront of South Portland.
Page 4 - Provided, That no preliminary examination, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this or some prior Act or joint resolution shall be made...