Chapter CCLXXXI. further regulating the Construction of Bridges across the Mississippi River
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CHAP. CCLXXXI.— An Act further regulating the Construction of Bridges across the Mississippi River.June 4, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all bridges hereafter constructedAll bridges constructed across the Mississippi river, under any act of Congress, to be subject to1872, ch. 73, § 5.*Ante*, pp. 45, 46. over and across the Mississippi river under authority of any act of Congress shall be subject to all the terms, restrictions, and requirements contained in the fifth section of an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river, at or near the town of Clinton, in the State of Iowa, and other bridges across said river, and to establish them as post-roads,” approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and in locating any such bridge the Secretary of War shall have due regard to the security and convenience of navigation, to convenience of access, and to the wants of all railways and highways crossing said river.
Approved, June 4, 1872.