Chapter 1129.

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CHAP. 1129.— An act to authorize the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Company to cross certain rivers in the State of Mississippi.September 30, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Company may bridge Pascagoula River, or Chickasaw hay and Leaf Rivers, Green county, and Pearl River, Rankin county, Miss.Locations. That the assent of Congress is hereby given to the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the States of Alabama and Mississippi, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and use a bridge or bridges, and approaches thereto, over the Pascagoula River, in the county of Green, in the State of Mississippi, or over the two rivers, the Chickasawhay and the Leaf, which form the Pascagoula, above their junction in the said county of Green, at such point or points as said railroad company may desire or find most practicable in the final location of its railroad between the city of Mobile, in the State of Alabama, and either or both the city of Jackson and the village of Brandon, in the State of Mississippi, and to construct, maintain, and use a bridge or bridges, and approaches thereto, across the Pearl River in or on the line of the county of Rankin, in said State of Mississippi, at such point or points as the said railroad company may find most practicable and convenient when it shall make the final location of its line of railroad in accordance with the charter to it granted by the State of Mississippi: *Provided*, That any bridge authorized to be constructed*Provisos*.Security of navigation. under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river or rivers as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary ofSecretary of War to approve plans, etc.

War for his examination and approval a design and drawings of the bridge and a map of the location, giving, for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river or rivers, the shore lines at high and low water, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War the bridge shall not be built: *Provided, also*, That if any such bridge shall be builtContinuous sponsor drawbridge.Spans. with unbroken and continuous spans they shall conform in length and height to the requirements of the Secretary of War: and if any such bridge shall be constructed as a drawbridge the same shall be constructed as a pivot drawbridge, with a draw over the mainPivot-draw. channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point, and with spans of such length as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; andSpans.Opening of draw. said draw shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of any kind of river craft, including rafts; and, whatever kind of bridge is built, the said company or corporation shall main- 554FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

Sess. I. Chs. 1129, 1130. 1890. tain at its own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or otherLights, etc. signals on said bridge as the Light-House Board may prescribe:Application of requirements, etc. *And provided, also*, That if more than one bridge is built under this act the above provisions and requirements shall apply to all. Sec. 2. That any and all bridges built under this act shall be lawfulLawful structures and post-routes. structures, and the line of railroad and bridges so constructed by the said railroad company shall constitute a post-route and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges of other post-roads of the United States.

Sec. 3. That this act shall be null and void if actual constructionCommencement and completion. of the bridges herein authorized be not commenced within two years and completed within four years from the date of the approval of this act. Sec. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, September 30, 1890. Chapter 1130: authorizing the use of the Louisville and Portland Canal Basin on certain conditions. Chapter 1130 26 Stat. 554 1890-09-30 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.

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