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accommodate two lines amount appropriated Blackwall Tunnel board of consulting BRIDGE & TUNNEL Bridge and Tunnel Canal street capacity carbon monoxide cent chief engineer clear headroom concrete congestion consideration consulting engineers cost of construction default depth dredging E. W. Bloomingdale easements East river bridges entrances and exits exhaust gases expenses five ferries Harlem river horse drawn vehicles increase interest therein Jersey City Jersey Interstate Bridge lands under water lines of traffic lines of vehicles Manhattan maximum motor truck motor vehicles necessary number of vehicles parties hereto permittee pierhead lines portal public service corporations recommended river tunnel Rotherhithe Tunnel Secretary Secretary of War shield method shown on plate six ferries structures thereof three line tunnel tolls trench method Tunnel Commission tunnel construction tunnel or tunnels tunnel section tunnel traffic Varick street ventilating ducts ventilating shafts width of roadway Williamsburg bridge York City York State Bridge
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Page 79 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Page 79 - 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, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 29 - The fiscal year of the society shall begin on the first day of July and end on the thirtieth day of June of each year.
Page 80 - War, to remove or alter the structural work or obstructions caused thereby without expense to the United States so as to render navigation reasonably free. easy, and unobstructed : and if.
Page 16 - Claims together with a certificate of the Attorney-General that no appeal from such judgment has been or will be taken by the State...
Page 80 - If the material is to be deposited in the harbor of New York, or in its adjacent or tributary waters, or in Long Island Sound, a permit therefor must be previously obtained from the supervisor of New York Harbor, Army Building, New York City.
Page 79 - That this authority does not give any property rights either in real estate or material or any exclusive privileges; and that It does not authorize any injury to private property or invasion of private rights, or any Infringement of Federal, State, or local laws or regulations, nor does It obviate the necessity of obtaining State assent to the work authorized. It merely expresses the assent of the Federal Government so far as concerns the public rights of navigation.
Page 15 - ... in whole or in part situated, and such posting and publication shall be sufficient notice to all persons.
Page 13 - An act to provide for the acquisition of lands and the construction of a tunnel or tunnels jointly with the state of New Jersey, for vehicular and pedestrian traffic under the Hudson river and between the states of New York and New Jersey, and making an appropriation therefor...
Page 16 - ... commission with the State of New Jersey. Pursuant to this contract, these moneys are to be deposited to the joint account of the commissions of the two States respectively empowered to deal with the matter and the income is to be divided monthly. The New York Act provides that the tolls and charges shall be fixed at such amount as will pay the estimated cost of administration, maintenance and operation, and will, in addition, pay within twenty years the amortized cost of construction (Laws of...