All our citizens have a right to congratulate themselves upon the high standard of efficiency and integrity which has been hitherto maintained by the representatives of the government in doing this great work.
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The board of engineers who signed this report are of all the men in their profession, within or without the United States, the men who are on the whole best qualified to pass upon these very questions which they examined.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
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