Chapter 216.
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CHAP. 216.— AN ACT to authorize the Barataria Ship Canal Company to construct and operate a ship canal from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, through the lands and waters of the United States, and to grant to said company the right of way for that purpose.June 15, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Barataria Ship-Canal Company.Right of way,etc. That the Barataria Ship Canal Company, a body corporate of the State of Louisiana, created by an act of the legislature of said State, approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seven tyseven, be, and the same is hereby, granted the right of way through the lands and waters of the United States, to enable said company to construct and operate a ship-canal from a point at or near the city of New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, through the Barataria Bay, in the State of Louisiana, with power and authority to construct and maintain all necessary harbors, locks, dams, dikes, levees, *Proviso.*and piers: *Provided*, The same shall in no manner interfere with or affect the usual and ordinary navigation of said waters where they are not confined either by piers or canal-banks constructed by said company, *Proviso.*and necessary for the use and operation of said canal: *And provided further*, That Bayou Villars shall not be closed by said canal company.
Sec. 2. That in the transportation of military or naval stores, troops,Rates of toll. or munitions of war of the United States, such rates of toll only shall be charged as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War; and that the tolls or tonnage charges of said company shall not exceed one dollar per ton on the tonnage-measurement of any vessel for the round trip through said canal, or half said sum for less than the round trip; and not exceeding twenty-five cents for each passenger through said canal either *Proviso.*way: *Provided*, That vessels of five tons burden and less shall be exempt from tolls for the use of said canal when they do not pass through *Proviso.*the locks: *And provided further*, That no tolls shall be charged on any boats or vessels navigating any of the waters on the line of said canal, which could have been navigated by such vessels bad such canal not been built Approved, June 15, 1878.