Excerpt from Water Terminal and Transfer Facilities: Letter From the Acting Secretary of War, Transmitting, With a Letter From the Chief of Engineers, Reports on an Investigation and Examination of All Water Terminal and Transfer Facilities Sec. 4. That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to have made during the years 1912 and 1913 through the Chief of Engineers, United States Army. So far as practicable, an investigation and examination of all water terminal and transfer facilities contiguous to any harbor, river, or other waters under improvement by the United States, and reports on the same shall be sub mitted to Congress in annual reports or otherwise. Such examination and re port shall include among other things the following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.