Chapter 238. to authorize the Mississippi River Logging Company to construct and operate sheer-booms at or near Straight Slough
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CHAP. 238.— An Act to authorize the Mississippi River Logging Company to construct and operate sheer-booms at or near Straight Slough.June 16, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mississippi River Logging Company authorized to construct and operate shoerbooms in the Mississippi River.*Proviso.* That it shall be lawful for the Mississippi River Logging Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Iowa, to construct and operate in conformity with plans to be approved by the Secretary of War sheer-booms in the Mississippi River, at or above the head of Rollingstone Slough and below the mouth of the Chippewa River, lor the purpose of sheering logs that may escape and float out of the Chippewa River and into the Mississippi River from the main channel of said river into Rollingstone or Straight Slough: *Provided*, That said sheer-booms *Proviso.*shall not be constructed until the plans and location of the same are submitted to the Secretary of War and receive his approval or so constructed as to interfere with or obstruct navigation: *And provided further*, That if, after said sheer-booms are so constructed, in the opinion of the Secretary of War they interfere with or obstruct navigation, he may order them removed or modified, and the said Mississippi River Logging Company shall be required to remove the same without cost to the United States.
Sec. 2. That the said Mississippi River Logging Company are herebyPiers and booms. authorized to construct, in Rollingstone or Straight Slough, such piers and booms as they shall deem necessary for the purpose of securing, bolding, sluicing, and rafting logs that may float into said slough. Sec. 3. That this act may be altered, amended, or repealed at any time;Right of repeal and amendment reserved. and in ease of such alteration, amendment, or repeal, it is expressly provided that the United States shall not be liable for any damages that may be sustained by reason thereof.
Approved, June 16, 1880.