Chapter 999.
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CHAP. 999.— An act declaring that certain water reserve lands in the State of Wisconsin are and have been subject to the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.September 10, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Right of way through water reserve lands in Wisconsin.
That all lands in the State of Wisconsin described in and withdrawn from stile by the proclamations of the President of the United States issued March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty, April fifth, eighteen*Post*, p. 654. hundred and eighty-one, and November twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, for the reason that said lands would be required for or subject to flowage in the construction of dams, reservoirs, and other works proposed to be erected for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River and certain of its tributaries, be, and the same are hereby, declared to be, and to have been at all times heretofore, subject to the provisions of a certain act of Congress, entitled “Au act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved MarchVol. 18, p. 482. third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as fully, effectually, and to the same extent as though said lands had not been described in said proclamations, or withdrawn from sale thereby, but had remained with the body of public lands subject to private entry and sale: *Provided, however*, That any and all parts of said lands acquired*Proviso*. by any railroad company under said act of Congress shall at all times be subject to the right of flowage which at any time mayRight of flowage. become necessary in the construction or maintenance of dams, reservoirs, or other works which may be constructed or erected by or 474FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 999–1001. 1888. under the authority of the United States for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi River or its tributaries: *Provided further*, That the railroad companies availing themselves of this Filing maps of location.act shall, in addition to tiling the maps now required by law to be filed, also file maps of definite location of their proposed lines of railroad, over said water reserve lands, in the office of the Secretary of War, and until the approval of said maps by the Secretary of War no right to occupy said lands shall vest in such companies;
Not to interfere with reservoir project.and no location shall be permitted which takes for right of way or stations lands needed for the use of the present reservoir system, or in the construction of dams or other works, or any proposed or probable extension of the same, or which will obstruct or increase the cost of the present or prospective reservoir system; or shall any railroad company be permitted to take material for construction from any of said reservoir lands outside the right of way granted herein.
Approved, September 10, 1888. Chapter 1000: granting the Leavenworth Rapid Transit Railway Company the right to construct and operate its railroad through a portion of the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Chapter 1000 25 Stat. 474 1888-09-10 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-23 50 1 public
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