ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION

FOR THE

YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 1, 1905.

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1905.

Résumé by Chief Engineer Stevens of conditions on Isthmus July 1, 1905...

Introduction..

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Sheet A.-Statement of net approximate cost of work for year ending June
30, 1905..

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Sheet B.-Arbitrary charges to cover cost of investment in plant for year

ending June 30, 1905

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Sheet C.-Statement showing steam shovels at work by months, February

1 to July 1, 1905..

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Sheet D.-Relative efficiency of steam shovels as shown by amount of

material excavated, February 1 to July 1, 1905.

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EXHIBIT D.

Reports by General Hains and Major Harrod and by Colonel Ernst on con-

ditions on the Isthmus, July 1, 1905.......

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Introduction of General Hains's and Major Harrod's reports

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Work on Culebra division

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Bureau of machinery and equipment

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Letter from Mr. W. E. Dauchy, acting chief engineer, as to condition of

work..

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Circular No. 13.-Organization of department of construction and engi-

neering, effective June 1, 1905...

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EXHIBIT E.

Organization of the Washington office

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EXHIBIT F.

Organization of the department of construction and engineering, September 1,

1905...

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EXHIBIT G.

General condition of employment in which salary is fixed in United States

currency..

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EXHIBIT H.

Regulations governing purchase, delivery, etc., of materials and supplies...

Purchases...

Assistant purchasing and forwarding agents in the United States.

Custody and issue of material and supplies

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Regulations governing purchase, delivery, etc.-Continued.

Requisitions made on material and supplies division.

Articles manufactured

Scrap material

Record of material and supplies

Property records

Storekeepers..

Inventories by storekeepers.

Requisitions for materials and supplies to be purchased

Page.

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Auditing organization of the Isthmian Canal Commission, Canal Zone, and

Panama Railroad................

Detailed statement of expenditures to June 30, 1905, by departments.

Detailed statement of expenditures July 1 to September 30, 1905, by depart-

ments

General and department of administration.

Department of government and sanitation

Department of construction and engineering.

EXHIBIT M.

Consolidated statement of expenditures to September 30, 1905

EXHIBIT N.

Statement of miscellaneous receipts from all sources..

EXHIBIT O.

Laws passed by preceding commission subsequent to last annual report ....

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EXHIBIT P.

Orders issued by preceding commission subsequent to last annual report

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EXHIBIT Q.

Resolutions of the preceding commission subsequent to last annual report ...

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