State barge


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a royal barge, or a barge belonging to a government.

See also: State

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"Can a State barge its police into the customs area and direct the Customs as to what is to be done?
The tolls, which range from $25 to $100 depending on the size of the boat, were waived in 2017 and 2018 to celebrate the Erie Canal bicentennial and the 100-year anniversary of the New York State Barge Canal, known as the New York State Canal System.
The headwaters of the Creek consist of an east and west branch beginning immediately north of the New York State Barge Canal in Lockport.
Film of someone in a bear suit depicting the Bear and Ragged Staff story, and Queen Elizabeth I arriving on a state barge are hilarious and spectacular respectively, and the whole thing was on a hugely-impressive scale.
In addition to running the toll road, the Thruway Authority operates the state barge canal system, runs Stewart Airport in Newburgh, and pays for the State Police Thruway Division.
It is also rimmed by the New York State Barge Canal, the Cayuga-Seneca Barge Canal and Cayuga Lake.
Other boats taking part are the St Michael's Mount State Barge - built in 1740 and possibly the oldest vessel in the world still afloat - and The Amazon, which took part in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 1897.
* The Illinois Waterway affords connections to the Great Lakes and the New York State Barge Canal.
As well, all the barges and other Thames boats depicted in the sixteenth-century 'Agas' and Braun and Hogenberg maps of London have curved hulls, including Queen Elizabeth's state barge (both maps are reproduced in Adrian Prockter and Robert Taylor, The A to Z of Elizabethan London [London, 1979]).
Clair, which lies sandwiched between Lakes Erie and Huron, the immigrant mollusk has since spread into all five Great Lakes and other inland waters, including the Erie Canal and the New York State Barge Canal.

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