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navigable waters of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, by the deposition of dredged material from Chicago river
Anderson, the principal surveyor in the District of Ohio, between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers,
Spear as special agent for the Indians at Cheyenne River Agency, Dakota Territory, which were transmitted
As the occurrence appears to have taken place in the river close to the dock at Liverpool, it is probable
the injunction suit to restrain the Government from prosecuting its work at Hallett's Point, East River
has been directed to appear for the defence of the Engineer Officers having charge of the Potomac River
Dec. 27, 1870, and is an official bond of Spear as special agent for the Sioux Indians at Cheyenne River
contract contains a lease from said Ordway to the United States, of his quarries known as the "James River
President, of one Dorcas Mary Lavin, setting forth that her husband Nicholas Lavin, was murdered at River
of the people of Coeyman's to sue out an injunction against the further prosecution of the Hudson River
Cook, for rent of land at the mouth of Genessee river, New York.
Lawrence River—but to what place I am not informed; but are supposed to be secreted in an Irish settlement
about five miles from the river.
Secretary of War to change the location of the Railroad and bridge across Rock Island and the Mississippi river
adjudge it fair and equitable that the Government should build a bridge across the main channel of the river
abstract, & other papers submitted to me relative to the title of "Seavey's Island," in the Piscataqua River
sitting in Louisiana, a number of adjudications were had upon libels in rem against steamboats & other river
Brightley's Digest, 207, provides that if "any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river
be construed as equivalent to "District of Columbia," should a murder be committed on the Potomac river
If this is all, the Attorney General thinks that an Act simply declaring that the words high seas, river
Resolution was approved authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept League Island on the Delaware River
communication of the 11th instant, relative to a tract of land remaining unappropriated upon the Mississippi River
acquired by the United States for the purpose of establishing Range Lights near the mouth of the Maumee River
Jefferson county, West Virginia, to recover about twenty-one acres of land, situated on the Potomac river
alias Trombley, from the Light House Reservation of the United States at the mouth of the Saginaw river