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3667 1 (1897)

handle is hein.usccsset/usconset32607 and id is 1 raw text is: 55TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. D.DOUMENT 2d Session. No. 142. PER DIEM ALLOWANCE FOR PRESIDENT OF DEEP WATER- WAYS BOARD. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, TRANSMITTING A STATEMENT AS TO THE COMPENSATION OF THE ENGINEER OPPICER (MAJ. C. W. RAYMOND) DETAILED AS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF ENGINEERS TO MAKE EXAMINATIONS AND SURVEYS OF DEEP WATERWAYS BETWEEN THE GREAT LAKES AND THE ATLANTIC TIDE WATERS. DECEMBER 13, 1897.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to printed. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, December 9, 1897. SM: I have the honor to submit for consideration of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, the following statement and recommendation: Pursuant to the provisions contained in the act of Congress, approved June 4, 1897, making appropriations for sundry civil appropriations of the Government, etc. (Stat. L p.- 50), a Board of Engineers to make examinations and surveys of deep waterways and the routes thereof, between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic tide waters was appointed by the President, July 28, 1897, as follows: From the Engineer Corps of the Army, Maj. C. W. Raymond; from civil life, Mr. Alfred Noble, of Chicago, Ill., and Mr. George Wisner, of Detroit, Mich. Subse- quently said board was organized by the election of Maj. C. W. Ray- mond as president, and the appointment, by direction of the President, of Gen. James H. Kidd, of Michigan, as secretary. Inviting attention to the law in the case of the officer of the Navy detailed to serve ou the board to locate a deep-water harbor on the Pacific coast, as contained in the act of Congress, approved February 17, 1897 (29 Stat. L., p. 531, chap. 236), as follows: The officer of the Navy detailed to serve on this board shall receive from said appropriation, in addition to his mileage provided for in section fifteen hundred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes and notwithstanding its provisions, such per diem allowance for subsistence as the Secretary of War may deem proper. H. DoC. 39-1

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