Chapter 465. to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Saint Croix River between the city of Calais, Maine, and Saint Stephen's, New Brunswick
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CHAP. 465.— An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge over the Saint Croix River between the city of Calais, Maine, and Saint Stephen's, New Brunswick.August 8, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bridge over Saint Croix River, between Calais, Me., and Saint Stephen’s, New Brunswick. That the Maine Shore-Line Railway Company, a corporation organized and created under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Maine be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to construct, own, maintain, and operate a railway bridge over the Saint Croix River between the city of Calais, in the ’ State of Maine, and the town of Saint Stephen’s, in the Province of New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada, at such point as may be most convenient to said corporation to unite and connect their railroad to be constructed by them in the said city of Calais with any railroad that may be constructed by any person or company in the said Dominion of Canada, and to build and lay on and across said bridge ways or tracks for the passage of railway trains and foot-passengers, for the transit of which said corporation may charge a reasonable toll; and that said Declared a lawful structure.bridge, when completed, shall be deemed and taken to be a legal structure.
Sec. 2. That the plan and location of any bridge the construction ofPlan and location to be approved by Secretary o f War.Free navigation of river preserved.Piers, etc. which is hereby authorized shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War; and the bridge, if built at any distance greater than one hundred feet below the present toll-bridge between Calais, Maine, and Saint Stephen’s, New Brunswick, or the head of navigation, shall be so located as not to obstruct, impair, or injuriously modify the free navigation of the river, and shall be built with the piers parallel to the current, leaving the waterway unobstructed by rip-rap or piling, or other obstructions, and shall have at the Draw.crossing of the main channel of the river a draw of not less than sixty feet of clear opening, which shall be located at a point best calculated to accommodate commerce, which draw shall at all times be opened promptly for passing vessels upon reasonable signal, except when railway trains are Lights.passing over the same; and at all times during the season of navigation proper signal-lights shall be used and maintained at the expense of the aforesaid *Provisos.*company to guide vessels approaching said draw : *Provided,* That the construction of said bridge shall not be commenced until the plan and location thereof have been approved by the Secretary of War, and the said company has been notified of the same in writing: *And provided further,* That the consent of the proper authorities of the Dominion of 371 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I, On. 465, 466. 1882. Canada shall have been obtained before said bridge shall be built or commenced. Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is herebyRight to alter, amend, or repeal reserved. expressly reserved. And the right to require any changes in said structure or its entire removal at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress shall decide that the public interest requires it, is also expressly reserved. Approved, August 8, 1882.