Download or read book Report of the Commissioner and Register of the Des Moines River Improvement to the Governor of Iowa, 1852 (Classic Reprint) written by Comm of Des Moines River Improvement and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner and Register of the Des Moines River Improvement to the Governor of Iowa, 1852 Register to draw on them for an amount sufficient to meet the esti mates for Work done on the Croton, Bonaparte and Bentonsport jobs, payable at the American Exchange Bank in the City of New Y ork which was done accordingly, and the drafts sold, mostly in Keokuk and St. Louis, as became indispensably necessary, in order to make payments on the work referred to 3 and thus to carry them fo1ward, that they might at last be placed in a condition to admit of the passage of boats. This was expiessly required to be done by the lst of February, 1852, unde1 the terms of the contract with Bangs Brother dz Co, and would have been done, unquestionably, had they complied with those terms, in furnishing the money to meet the esti mates. H aving failed to do so, it was not accomplished until during the month last past, when, by the same 'terms, the jobs at the three points mentioned were to have been, and should have been, not mere ly'passable for boats, at all times, but entirely completed. 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.