Chapter 316.
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CHAP. 316.— An act to amend an act entitled “An act granting to the city of Grand Forks. Dakota, the right to build two free bridges across Red River,” approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.March 1, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bridges across Red River of the North at Grand Forks, Dak. That section three of an act entitled “An act granting to the city of Grand Forks.
Dakota. the right to build two free bridges across the Red River,” *Ante*, p. 153.approved May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and it is hereby, amended by inserting after the words “under this act,” in line one. the words “below the mouth of the Red Lake River; “and further, after the words “said bridge,” in line eleven, insert as Construction of bridges amended.follows: “And any bridge built under this act, above the mouth of the Red Lake River, shall be built with one d raw-span of not less than eighty-seven feet in the clear, measured at low water, and this draw-span shall be over the main channel at the most accessible and best navigable point, and the other span may be less than eighty feet and be kept clear of trestle-work;” and the spans shall not be of less elevation than three feet above extreme high water mark as known at the point of location, measured to the lowest part of the superstructure of said bridge; also, by inserting in line thirteen, after the words “parallel to.” as follows:
“And except above the mouth of the Red Lake River;” and also by inserting in line fifteen, after the word “stream,” as follows: “And above the mouth of the Red Lake River the bridge may be placed at an angle of eighty-three degrees with the direction of the current of the stream.” Approved, March 1, 1889.