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Page 452 - Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas...
Page 124 - Division of Telegrams and Reports for the benefit of Commerce and Agriculture.
Page 298 - Time of closing and opening of rivers, lakes, canals, and stream*. and their extreme rise and fall. Temperature of wells and springs, at least once each season. Earthquakes. — Time of occurrence, direction of impulse, number of shocks, and effects produced. Hazy or smoky appearance of the atmosphere. — Time of occurrence and intensity.
Page 481 - That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be, and they are hereby requested, in the name of the State of Ohio, to call for a change of National Policy on the subject of the
Page 117 - Hatteras have been in continuous operation. The constant changes occurring in the widths of the numerous inlets, across which the line upon the coast is carried by cables between Cape Hatteras and Wilmington, the destruction of portions of the lines and changes in the coast itself, caused by storms, have frequently interrupted communication south of Cape Hatteras. The force and the appropriations available have not permitted extensive repairs. It is hoped the appropriations for the ensuing year will...
Page 99 - At the stations at which cautionary signals are displayed an observer must be constantly on duty to receive the order and to show the signal, which may be ordered at any moment. At stations from which, river reports are furnished, an observation and record of the depth and tem]*'rature of the water is made and reported at 3 o'clock pm, local time, on each day.
Page 484 - Secretary urges anew the enactment of a statute for the punishment of crimes committed on the Indian reservations, and recommends the passage of the bill now pending in the House of Representatives for the purchase of a tract of 18,000 square miles from the Sioux reservation. Both these measures are worthy of approval.
Page 19 - There are four assistants on duty, one of whom ia a printer. During the year seven assistants have been transferred to duty elsewhere, five relieved for misconduct, one for discharge, and one for medical treatment, making fourteen changes in all. Five hundred and eighty post-offices have been supplied regularly with the farmers' bulletin, and eighty seven maps issued and distributed daily. No change has been made in the location of the office since last report The daily press gives a liberal amount...
Page 104 - Department, and with the courteous cooperation of scientists and chiefs of meteorological services representing the different countries, a record of observations, taken daily simultaneously with the observations taken throughout the United States and the adjacent islands, is exchanged semimonthly. These reports are to cover the territorial extent of Algiers, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain...
Page 4 - Cavalry, who has furnished reports of the instruction of officers aud enlisted men regularly since that date. A form of instruction has been maintained in the Department of Dakota, but no reports of progress are received. Personal reports received from officers at various military posts throughout the United States indicate that instruction is given in some form at most of them ; but, as a rule, it is conducted without proper facilities to make it as thorough as it should be. The officers of the...