The Coast and Geodetic Survey: Its History, Activities and OrganizationJohn Hopkins Press, 1983 - 107 pages |
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41 Stat Act Making appropriations administration Alaska allowances of Lieutenant appointed appropriations for sundry army astronomic astronomic transit Atlantic azimuth charge Chief of Division Chief of Section Coast and Geodetic Coast Pilot Coast Survey commissioned officers computations Congress coöperation Department of Commerce depth determined duty Electrotype employees ending June thirtieth engraved field parties fiscal year ending furnish geodetic engineers Geodetic Survey grade harbor hydrographic and geodetic hydrographic and topographic hydrographic surveys instruments Junior Hydrographic Laborer lines located longitude magnetic observations maps Marine Corps measured ment meridian nautical charts naval navigation Navy Department necessary notices to mariners operations organization Pacific Coast Pay and allowances personnel plane of reference precise leveling precise triangulation President printing Public Health Service relative rank reports Secretary of Commerce Section Chief shoal shore soundings sundry civil expenses tidal observations tide tables transfer traverse Treasury Department ture Appropria United vessels
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Page 94 - EXPLANATORY NOTE The bibliographies appended to the several monographs aim to list only those works which deal directly with the services to which they relate, their history, activities, organization, methods of business, problems, etc. They are intended primarily to meet the needs of those persons who desire to make a further study of the services from an administrative standpoint. They thus do not include the titles of publications of the services themselves, except in so far as they treat of the...
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Page vii - ... entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than half a million persons are required to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of the government....
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