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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · September 25, 1890 · Chapter 924

Chapter 924.

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CHAP. 924.— An act to authorize the Chicago, Henderson, Bowling Green and Chattanooga Railway Company to construct a bridge over Green and Barren Rivers, in the State of Kentucky.September 25, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Chicago, Henderson. Bowling Green and Chattanooga Railway Company may bridge Green and Barren Rivera, Ky. That the Chicago, Henderson, Bowling Green and Chattanooga Railway Company, organized under an act of the general assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain one or more bridges, and the approaches thereto, over Green River and Barren River, in the State of Kentucky, at such Locations, etc.points as said company may deem suitable for the passage of its said road over said rivers.
Said bridges shall be constructed to Railway, or railway, wagon, and foot bridge.provide for the passage of railway trains and, at the option of the corporation by which they may be built, may be used for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds and for foot passengers. Sec. 2. That any bridges built under this act and subject to itsLawful structures and post-routes. limitations shall be lawful structures, recognized and known as post-routes, and they shall enjoy the same rights and privileges as other post-roads in the United States.
Equal privileges in the use Use by telegraph, etc., companies.Postal-telegraph.of said bridges shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies, and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridges and their approaches for postal-telegraph purposes. Sec. 3. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridgesUse by other companies. shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway trains over the same, and over the approaches Terms.thereto, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridges and the several railroad companies, or any of them desiring such use, shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridges, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties.
Sec. 4. That any bridges authorized to be constructed under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations Security of navigation.for the security of the navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawing of the bridges and a map of the location thereof, and until the said plan and location of the Secretary of War to approve plans, etc.bridges are approved by the Secretary of War the bridges shall not be commenced or built; and should any changes be made in the plan of said bridges during the progress of construction, such changes FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 924, 925. 1890. 477 shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War; and said bridges shall be at all times so managed and kept as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels through or under them; and to secure the safe passage of vessels at night there shall be displayed on said bridges, from sunset to sunrise, such lights orLights, etc. other signals as may be prescribed by the Light-House Board; and all changes in said bridges required by the Secretary of War at anyStructural changes, etc. time, or their entire removal, shall be at the expense of the corporations or persons owning or operating said bridges.
Sec. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is herebyAmendment, etc. expressly reserved. Sec. 6. That this act shall be null and void if actual constructionCommencement and completion. of the bridges herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date hereof. Approved, September 25, 1890. Chapter 925: to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain lands, and to grant the proceeds of such sale to the town of Pelican, Oneida County, Wisconsin, for school purposes.
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