Annual Report of the Governor of the Panama CanalU.S. Government Printing Office, 1916 |
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Agua Clara amount Ancon April asphaltic concrete August average back fill basin blocks building caisson Canal Zone cent Chagres River coaling plant Coco Solo Colon completed construction Corozal cubic yards Culebra cylinders December Division expense dredges Dry Dock east electrical Ending June 30 engineer equipment erection February feet of 6-inch filtered water Fiscal Year Ending floor Gaillard Cut gallons Gamboa gates Gatun Lake grading hydroelectric hydroelectric station inches installed Isthmus January July June 30 linear feet lockages maintenance March material miscellaneous month Mount Hope November Number of samples Number of test October operation Panama Canal Panama Railroad Paraiso Pedro Miguel pier pipe laid placed pounds pumps purification plant raw water reinforced concrete Repairs Reservoir rock Sept September ships slides spillway square yards standard units steel TABLE tion Total cost Total division cost Trace trestle Unit cost United States Army vessels wall wharf yards of excavation
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Page 630 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 621 - One of the original members shall be appointed for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of...
Page 624 - Every vessel purchased, chartered, or leased from the board shall, unless otherwise authorized by the board, be operated only under such registry or enrollment and license. Such vessels while employed solely as merchant vessels shall be subject to all laws, regulations, and liabilities governing merchant vessels, whether the United States be interested therein as owner, in whole or in part, or hold any mortgage, lien, or other interest therein.
Page 621 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer...
Page 618 - ... unless before that time he, if a parent or grand-parent, dies, marries or ceases to be dependent, or, if a brother, sister or grand-child, dies, marries or reaches the age of eighteen, or, if over eighteen and incapable of self-support, becomes capable of self-support. The compensation of a brother, sister or grandchild under legal age shall be paid to his or her guardian. (h) As used in this Section, the term " child " includes step-children, adopted children, and posthumous children, but does...
Page 624 - That the board, if in its judgment such action is necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, may form under the laws of the District of Columbia * one or more corporations for the purchase, construction, equipment, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of merchant vessels in the commerce of the United States.10 The total capital stock thereof shall not exceed $50,000,000. The board may, for and on behalf of the United States...
Page 621 - That a commission is hereby created, to be known as the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, and to be composed of three commissioners appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one of whom shall be designated by the President as chairman.
Page 628 - Canal Zone retirement and disability fund, is as follows: For financing of the liability of the United States, created by the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of employees of the Panama Canal and the Panama Railroad Company, on the Isthmus of Panama, who are...
Page 620 - ... shall be suspended until such refusal or obstruction ceases. No compensation shall be payable while such refusal or obstruction continues, and...
Page 611 - Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said...