Reports Of The Committee On The District Of Columbia House Of Representatives Vol 5

Download or read book Reports of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Vol. 5 written by T. H. McKee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Vol. 5: From the Fourteenth Congress, 1815, to the Forty-Ninth Congress, 1887, Inclusive In the month of March, 1853, the sum of thirty thousand dollars was appropriated by Congress for the construction of a bridge over the Potomac river, at a point known as the Little Falls, and the work was placed in process of construction, under the direction of George Thom, captain in corps of topographical engineers. 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.