Chapter 165.
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CHAP. 165.— An act to authorize and empower the Mount Carmel Development Company to draw water from the Wabash River, or its tributaries, in the county of Wabash and State of Illinois.February 14, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mount Carmel Development Company may construct canal from Wabash River, Illinois. That the Mount Carmel Development Company, a corporation created and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, be, and the same is hereby, authorized and empowered to construct and operate, during its corporate existence, a hydraulic canal from any point on the Wabash River, above the lock and dam now in process of construction at the Grand Rapids of said Wabash River, or from any tributary of said river within the county of Wabash and State of Illinois, to any point on said river within the corporate limits of the city of Mount Carmel, Illinois; and to draw from said Wabash River or tributary thereof such supply of water as may be required for the purposes of such *Proviso*.corporation: *Provided*, That such withdrawal be not detrimental to the To be controlled by Secretary of War.interests of navigation and be subject to the direction and control of the Secretary of War.
Approved, February 14, 1889.