Chapter 384. authorizing the city of Winona, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across a part of the Mississippi River and a certain island therein
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CHAP. 384.— An Act authorizing the city of Winona, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across a part of the Mississippi River and a certain island therein.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Winona, Minn., authorized to bridge Mississippi to Island No. 72. That the city of Winona, a municipal corporation in the State of Minnesota, located on the west bank of the Mississippi River, be, and it hereby is, authorized and em Postal telegraph.
Other companies may use. Secretary of War to decide terms. Secretary of War to approve plans, etc. 566 powered to construct and to perpetually maintain a pile bridge for the passage of teams, vehicles, and pedestrians, and for other purposes for which ordinary wagon and foot bridges are commonly used, from the Southerly end of the certain wagon-road owned and maintained by said city, and located and terminating at the bank of said liver in lot six, in sect ion six, township eighteen north, of range ten west, in the county of Buffalo and State of Wisconsin, opposite said city, across that certain slough or part of said river which lies between the Wisconsin shore and the certain island in said river known and designated as “Island number seventy-two,” and to, upon, and across said island, and from thence on in a southerly direction to navigable water in the main part of said river lying southward from said island.
The said bridge to be used in connection with a ferry to be operated by said city across the main channel of said river. Sec. 2. That said bridge shall be so located and constructed as not toNot to obstruct navigation. obstruct or interfere with the navigation of said main channel; and that said bridge shall be built subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and until the plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War the bridge shall not be built.
And should any change be made in the plan of said bridge during the progress of construction, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is herebyRight to amend etc., 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 interests require it, is also expressly reserved.
Approved, March 3, 1887.