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Page 665 - ... so conveyed may lie; and in like manner may be recorded a sufficient description, by metes and bounds, courses and distances of any tract or tracts, legal divisions...
Page 171 - making appropriations for the repair, preservation and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 145 - An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes," approved August 15, 1876, by and between George W.
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Page 160 - .' making appropriations for the construction, repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," the sum of $5,000 was appropriated for the improvement of this harbor.
Page 7 - Appropriation asked for next fiscal year .. $50, 000 00 Fort Winthrop, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, in charge of Col. Henry W. Benham, Corps of Engineers. — This is one of the works forming the inner line of defense to Boston Harbor and the navy-yard at Charlestowu.
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Page 501 - SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith my annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1905.
Page 12 - There has beea no change in the armament during the year. The cost of completing the battery in accordance with the approved plan, including the thickening of the parapet, a rough sea-wall at the foot of the exterior slope, and wooden linings in the principal magazines, amounting in the whole to $37,100, is included in the estimate for fort on site of Fort Tompkins. No separate appropriation is asked for next fiscal year.
Page 131 - OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS. In the labors of the office I was assisted, on the 30th of June, by the following officers in charge of the several divisions : FIRST AND SECOND DIVISIONS. — Fortifications, battalion, and engineer depot, lands, armaments, personnel, &c., Lieut.