Chapter 657. to authorize the County of Pulaski, in the State of Georgia, to maintain a high wagon and foot bridge across the Ocmulgee River at or near Hawkinsville in the State of Georgia
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CHAP. 657.— An Act to authorize the County of Pulaski, in the State of Georgia, to maintain a high wagon and foot bridge across the Ocmulgee River at or near Hawkinsville in the State of Georgia.July 3, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Pulaski County Georgia, may bridge Ocmulgee River at Hawkinsville, Ga. That the county of Pulaski, in the State of Georgia, be, and the same is hereby, authorized to maintain a free wagon and foot bridge across the Ocmulgee River at or near Hawkinsville, in said county and State.Free, wagon and foot bridge.
Sec. 2. That the bridge authorized by this act shall be a highConstruction.High spans, etc. bridge of unbroken and continuous spans, and its lower chord shall not. be of less elevation than fifty-three feet above ordinary low-water-mark, as understood at the point of location. That any bridgeSecretary of War to approve plans, etc. constructed under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said county shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, the design and drawings of the bridge, piers, and approaches, and a map of the location, giving, for the space of at least one-half mile above and one-half mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the shorelines at high and low water, and the direction and strength of the currents at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, and the location of other bridge or bridges, wharves, landings. or ferries, and, shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War the bridge shall not be built; and after such approval by the Secretary of War the approved plans and designs for the bridge shall not be deviated from or added to, either during the construction or after the completion of the bridge, until the proposed change shall have been submitted to the Secretary of War and received his approval; and the said bridge shall be at all times so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels through or under said bridge; and for the safety of vesselsUnobstructed navigation. passing at night there shall be displayed on said bridge, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals as may be prescribed by theLights, etc.
Light-House Board; and if at any time the navigation of said river shall in any manner be obstructed or impaired by the bridge authorized by this act to be constructed, the Secretary of War shall have authority, and it shall be his duty, to require said county to alterAlterations, etc. and change the said bridge, at its own expense, in such manner as 220FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 657, 658, 660. 1890. may be proper to secure free and complete navigation; and if, upon reasonable notice to said county to make such change or improvements, the said county fails to do so, the Secretary of War shall have authority to make the same, and all the rights conferred by this act Forfeiture.Free navigation.Commencement and completion.shall be forfeited, and Congress shall have power to do any and all things necessary to secure the free navigation of the river: and if said bridge shall not be commenced within one year and finished within two years from the passage of this act the rights and *Proviso*.privileges granted shall be null and void: *Provided, also*, That nothing in this act shall be so construed so as to repeal or modify any of the Protected navigation.provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operations of the same.
Sec. 3. Alteration, etc,, of existing bridge. That said county be. and the same is hereby, authorized with the approval of the Secretary of War. to so alter.” change, and repair the bridge now owned and operated by said county across the Ocmulgee River at Hawkinsville as to make it conform to the provisions of this act. Sec. 4. Amendment, etc. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, July 3, 1890.