Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Government and the Public Works
Some of the civil works for which appropriation bills are p pared are summarized by General Smith, as follows.
The Improvement of Rivers and Harbors, Which, by pre dent only, 15 in the hands of the Secretary of War, and carried by the Engineer Corps of the Army.
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