Resolution 2598 i
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RESOLUTION NO. 2598
WHEREAS, a hearing has been granted to repre-
sentatives from the area of Greater Miami by the Board of Engineers
for Rivers and Harbors, of the War Department, at Washington, D. C . ,
II at which representations concerning the needs of deeper water in
the channel from the ocean to the Port of Miami are to be exploited
and made known, and
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WHEREAS, the Port of Miami is vitally in need
of a channel of a depth of at least thirty feet at this time, in
order that tourist and cargo ships and ships of larger draft than
are able to enter the port at this time may be enabled to enter the
Port of Miami, and in order that the needs of the Mid-West and
South may be served by the Port of Miami in exportation through
said port of raw products to Central and South America; and in
order , also, that shippers from said southern points may be enabled,
by shorter haul than now exists to northern and eastern ports, to
import and land their raw products and freight at a point more near-
ly adjacent to metropolis centers of the South and Mid-West, and
WHEREAS, large expenditures of money have been
made in building Greater Miami into a metropolis city whose popula-
tion would greatly be increased by the presence of deep water, and
whose prosperity would be greatly enhanced, should a deeper channel
be made from the ocean to the docks and Port of Greater Miami, and
WHEREAS, the citizens of Miami Beach are a part
of what is known as Greater Miami, and are unanimously eager that
such a deep water channel be dredged and made to the ends as herein
stated,
NOW, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, that it is the earnest sentiment and
request of the said Council and of the citizenry of Miami Beach that
the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, of the War Department
at Washington, D. C. , take such steps and make such appropriations
and expenditures as may be necessary, forthwith, to insure the
dredging of the channel from the ocean to the Port of Greater
Miami, so that a minimum depth of at least thirty feet of water
may be available through which ships may pass to and from said
port,
And this resolution is hereby ordered read be-
fore the meetings of the Council of the City of Miami Beach, and
a copy thereof ordered to be forwarded at once to the Board of
Engineers above mentioned.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of April,
A. D. 1933.
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ATTEST:
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City Clerk
APPROVED:
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