Chapter XV. *to establish and declare the Railroad and Bridges of the New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Company, as hereafter constructed, a Post-Road, and for other Purposes.*March 2, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembl
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CHAP. XV.— An Act *to establish and declare the Railroad and Bridges of the New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railroad Company, as hereafter constructed, a Post-Road, and for other Purposes.*March 2, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the New Orleans, Mobile, The New Orleans, Mobile, & Chattanooga R. R. Co. may construct bridges across certain navigable waters.and Chattanooga Railroad Company is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, build, and maintain bridges over and across the navigable waters of the United States on the route of said railroad between New Orleans and Mobile, for the use of said company and the passage of its engines, cars, and trains of cars, passengers, mails, and merchandise Roads and bridges declared lawful structures, &c. a post road.thereon; and said railroad and its bridges aforesaid, when constructed, completed, and in use, in accordance with this act and the laws of the several States through whose territory the same shall pass, shall be deemed, recognized, and known as lawful structures and a post road, and Drawbridges to be maintained in channels;are hereby declared as such: *Provided, however,* That the said company, in the construction of its bridges over and across the waters known as the East Pascagoula river, and the Bay of Biloxi, [and] the Bay of St.
Louis, shall construct and maintain draw-bridges in the channels thereof, which, when open, shall give a clear space for the passage of vessels of not less than eighty feet in the channels of the East Pascagoula, and of the Bay of Biloxi, and of the Bay of St Louis, and of not less than one hundred feet in the channel of the Great Rigolet; and said company shall at all when to be opened.times open the said draw-bridges, and shall provide reasonable and necessary facilities for the passage of all vessels requiring the same, except during and for ten minutes prior to and after the time of the passage of the mail and passenger trains of said company.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,*Right to amend act expressly reserved. That the right to alter or amend this act, so as to prevent or remove all material obstructions to the navigation of said rivers, growing out of the construction of said bridges, is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 2, 1868.