Memorial, presented by the Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago to the Congress of the United States : deep waterway from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River at St. Louis (1904)
Chicago Sanitary District. Board of Trustees · (Chicago) · leaf 19
iver flowing through an inhabited country. The construction of the canal was authorized by state law May 29, 1889, andthe Sanitary District of Chicago was organized for the work, its territory includingall that part of Chicago lying north of Eighty-seventh street, with the exceptionof two small… … Memorial to the Congress of the United States. 19 extent of one-half of one per cent per anniuu on the assessed valuation of theproperty of the District; and for the five years from 1895 to 1899 they were alloweda tax rate of one and one-half per cent. They were also empowered to issuebonds to the…
Inland navigation · Canals
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