Regulating the Erection of Structures on the Potomac River Adjacent to the Proposed George Washington Memorial Parkway in the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, Second Session on S.J. Res. 159 [182] and H.J. Res. 345, Companion House Bill, a Joint Resolution Prohibiting Location Or Erection of Any Wharf Or Dock Or Artificial Fill Or Bulkhead Or Other Structure on the Shores Or in the Waters of the Potomac River Within the District of Columbia Without the Approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital. June 18 and 20, 1930U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930 - 75 páginas |
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Página 34 - 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.
Página 34 - 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 the Army; 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...
Página 29 - That if future operations by the United States require an alteration in the position of the structure or work herein authorized, or if, in the opinion of the Secretary of War...
Página 9 - Virginia and all the rights and jurisdiction therewith ceded over the same shall be ceded and forever relinquished to the State of Virginia in full and absolute right and jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon...
Página 29 - 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, upon the...
Página 34 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States...
Página 30 - Chairman, I do not want to interrupt you but I would like to ask a question at this point.
Página 37 - ... changed by the natural and gradual processes known as erosion and accretion, the boundary follows the varying course of the stream; while if the stream from any cause, natural or artificial, suddenly leaves its old bed and forms a new one, by the process known as an...
Página 14 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding 10 miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Página 28 - That the work shall be subject to the supervision and approval of the district engineer, engineer' department at large, in charge of the locality, who may temporarily suspend tin1 work at any time if, in his judgment, the interests of navigation so require.