Excerpt from Analytical and Topical Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers and the Officers of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, Vol. 3: Upon Works and Surveys for River and Harbor Improvements; 1888-1892

General: I have the honor to forward herewith the manuscript of the third volume of the Index to the Reports of the Chief of Engineers on River and Harbor Improvements.

The first volume, published in 1881, covered the reports from 1866 to 1879, inclusive, which consisted of twenty-three volumes, containing pages. The second volume, published in 1889, covered the reports from 1880 to 1887, inclusive, which consisted of twenty-seven volumes, containing pages. The present volume extends the work from 1888 to 1892, inclusive, and covers twenty-two volumes, con taining pages. The index now covers seventy-two volumes of reports, containing an aggregate of pages.

The plan followed in compiling the present volume is essentially that adopted in the second volume, except that the Personal Index and the List of Private, Corporate, and State Work on Rivers and Har bors are omitted. Experience seems to have shown that the former is not of sufficient utility to justify the great labor of compiling it, and there are practically no references to extend under the latter.

An added feature to this volume of the Index will be found in the Abstract of laws relating to River and Harbor Improvements and other Public Works of the United States from 1790 to which it is hoped will be found useful in the investigation of the legal questions so frequently arising in our engineering practice. The introduction to the Abstract fully explains its scope and character and the authorities upon which it is based.

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