Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Part 6U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - Engineering Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 . |
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annual report appropriation approved bank bank-head barges Bend Boat and cargo braces bridge Brush dam built Capt cargo a total channel Chief of Engineers cofferdam conduit construction Corps of Engineers cost Creek cubic yards Dalecarlia Reservoir distributing reservoir Dorado ending June 30 expenses fiscal year ending Fort Benton Gasconade Division Gasconade River gauges gravel grounds harbor hereby hundred improvement inches Island July June 11 June 24 June 30 linear feet lives lost lock Log and brush Louis Mackinac Island meter miles Missouri River Commission Missouri River trade mouth navigation Nebr Nebraska City Osage River parks pier piles placed plant Plumas ravine removed repaired revetment rock Secretary Secretary of War Sept Side-wheel Sioux City Snag station Stern-wheel street survey thousand dollars tion tons total loss United upper vessel Washington Aqueduct West Base wire wreck Yuba
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Page 4155 - ... any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state, into any navigable water of the United States...
Page 4154 - 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...
Page 4223 - ... shall be deemed to be an overtaking vessel; and no subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these rules, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel...
Page 4224 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any vessel, or the owner or master or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper lookout, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 4155 - ... material of any kind in any place on the bank of any navigable water, or on the bank of any tributary of any navigable water, where the same shall be liable to be washed into such navigable water, either by ordinary or high tides, or by storms or floods, or otherwise, whereby navigation shall or may be impeded or obstructed...
Page 4221 - ... (c.) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Page 4224 - When a vessel is in distress and requires assistance from other vessels or from the shore, the following shall be the signals to be used or displayed by her, either together or separately, namely: In the daytime: A continuous sounding with any fog-signal apparatus, or firing a gun.
Page 4218 - ... and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green...
Page 4218 - On the near approach of or to other vessels they shall have their side lights lighted, ready for use, and shall flash or show them at short intervals to indicate the direction in which they are heading; but the green light shall not be shown on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side. A pilot vessel of such a class as to be obliged to go alongside of a...
Page 4224 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.