United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 8580U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... navy yard . The latter improvement is known as Mare Island Channel . Range of tide between mean lower low water and mean higher high water is 6.5 feet . Local interests have made certain requests for work in San Pablo and Suisun Bays ...
... navy yard . The latter improvement is known as Mare Island Channel . Range of tide between mean lower low water and mean higher high water is 6.5 feet . Local interests have made certain requests for work in San Pablo and Suisun Bays ...
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... navy yard , and the diversion of the creek and its burden of silt into San Pablo Bay . This would not , however , affect the major source of the deposits , which , as stated , is the silt from San Pablo Bay brought in by the flood tide ...
... navy yard , and the diversion of the creek and its burden of silt into San Pablo Bay . This would not , however , affect the major source of the deposits , which , as stated , is the silt from San Pablo Bay brought in by the flood tide ...
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... Navy Department in Mare Island Strait is 100 feet wider than the existing project chan- nel , but has a depth 5 feet less . Maintenance of such a channel is a national defense matter , and the dimensions proposed for this purpose by the ...
... Navy Department in Mare Island Strait is 100 feet wider than the existing project chan- nel , but has a depth 5 feet less . Maintenance of such a channel is a national defense matter , and the dimensions proposed for this purpose by the ...
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... Navy Yard . The locality is under improvement under a project providing for dredging a channel across Pinole Shoal ... Navy has stated that the needs of the Navy Department can be met by a channel 35 feet by 500 feet over Pinole Shoals ...
... Navy Yard . The locality is under improvement under a project providing for dredging a channel across Pinole Shoal ... Navy has stated that the needs of the Navy Department can be met by a channel 35 feet by 500 feet over Pinole Shoals ...
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... Navy Departments . The district engineer , in connection with the present report , has supplemented former studies and brought them up to date by careful investigations involving monthly and bimonthly surveys over a period of more than ...
... Navy Departments . The district engineer , in connection with the present report , has supplemented former studies and brought them up to date by careful investigations involving monthly and bimonthly surveys over a period of more than ...
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Page 25 - That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of the courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 42 - That in case the commission shall find that any government dam may be advantageously used by the United States for public purposes in addition to navigation, no license therefor shall be issued until two years after it shall have reported to Congress the facts and conditions relating thereto, except that this provision shall not apply to any government dam constructed prior to...
Page 18 - All property, not exempted from taxation by this Constitution, shall be assessed for taxation at its fair cash value, estimated at the price it would bring at a fair voluntary sale...
Page 9 - Resolved by the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives, United States, that the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors created under section 3 of the River and Harbor Act, approved June 13...
Page 8 - 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 - The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause preliminary examinations and surveys to be made at the following-named localities...
Page 8 - 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...
Page 42 - Provided, That when licenses are issued involving the use of Government dams or other structures owned by the United States or tribal lands embraced within Indian reservations the commission shall fix a reasonable annual charge for the use thereof...
Page 2 - Illinois, or that the location and plans have been submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War.
Page 42 - ... capacity may be issued without charge, except on tribal lands within Indian reservations; but in no case shall a license be issued free of charge for the development and utilization of power created by any Government dam and that the amount charged therefor in any license shall be such as determined by the commission.