Chapter CXXV. *to establish certain Post-Roads in the Slate of Alabama, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CXXV.— An Act *to establish certain Post-Roads in the Slate of Alabama, and for other Purposes*. June 8, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled*, Drawbridge may be erected over the Alabama river, near Selma; That the consent of Congress be, and the same is hereby, given to the erection of a drawbridge over the Alabama river, near the city of Selma, by the Western Railroad Company of the Slate of Alabama, in accordance with an act of the legislature of said State incorporating said company.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the consent of Congress be,and above the city of Montgomery. and the same is hereby, given to the erection of a drawbridge over the said river, above the city of Montgomery, by the South and North Alabama Railroad Company, in accordance with the act of the legislature incorporating said company: *Provided*, That said drawbridges shall beProviso. respectively constructed so as to cross the streams at right angles with the current, and the approaches to such draws shall be protected by piers or other means that boats may enter the draws with safety in such manner otherwise as not materially or substantially to obstruct the free navigation of said river.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That Congress reserves the right toAssent of Congress may be withdrawn, if, &c. withdraw the assent hereby given, as to either or both of said companies, in case the free navigation of the said river shall be at any time materially or substantially obstructed by either or both of said bridges. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That said bridges, when completedBridges to be post-roads. in the manner specified in said acts of incorporation, shall be deemed and taken to be legal structures, and shall, with the railroads of which they are parts, be post-roads for the transmission of the mails of the United States.
Approved, June 8, 1870.