Chapter 940.
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CHAP. 940.— An act to grant to the Mobile and Dauphin Island Railroad and Harbor Company a right to trestle across the shoal water between Cedar Point and Dauphin Island.September 26, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mobile and Dauphin Island Railroad and Harbor Company may trestle shoal water from Cedar Point to Dauphin Island, between Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound.*Provisos*. That the Mobile and Dauphin Island Railroad and Harbor Company, a corporation duly organized under a charter granted by the general assembly of the State of Alabama, may extend its line, by means of trestle-work from Cedar Point to Dauphin Island, across the intervening shoal water between Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound: *Provided*, That 480 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 940. 1890. said company shall cross Grant’s Pass and Pass and Herons eachDraw-bridges over Grant’s Pass and Pass and Herons. with a drawbridge of such width, character, and construction as the Secretary of War shall prescribe: *Provided also*, That each such Opening of draw.draw shall be opened promptly, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats, and that said company shall maintain at its own Lights, etc.expense such lights, from sunset to sunrise, on each such draw as the Light-House Board shall prescribe: *And provided further*, That if Title to Grant’s Pass, etc.the United States shall at any time acquire the absolute and satisfactory title to Grant’s Pass, the Secretary of War shall be authorized, upon satisfactory proof to him of such investment of title, and if, in his opinion, the interests of the Government shall not then require a drawbridge to be constructed or maintained at Pass and Herons, to relieve said company from building or maintaining said drawbridge, but said company shall thereupon maintain a drawbridge at Grant’s Pass in all respects as hereinbefore prescribed.
Sec. 2. That said company may lay its track across the east endDauphin Island.Extension of track. Wharves and piers.*Provisos*.Secretary of War to approve plans. of Dauphin Island, owned by the “Government, as far as Fort Gaines, and may build wharves and piers out to deep water from the riparian front owned by the Government: *Provided*, That before any such track shall be laid or any pier or wharf built the approval of the Secretary of War shall be obtained upon plans and specifications submitted to him: *Provided also*, That if any such track is laid or Removal of track, wharves, etc.wharf or pier built the same shall be removed at the expense of said company if the Secretary of War should require such removal: *Provided also*, That the Government may use any such structure when built free of charge or tolls:Free use by Government.Security of navigation. *And provided further*, That said bridge and the construction and extension of the line from its terminus at Cedar Point across to Dauphin Island, and the terminal facilities at and between Dauphin Island and Cedar Point, where they project into navigable water, shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation as the Secretary of Secretary of War to approve bridge plans, etc.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 such bridge or constructions, and a map of the location, giving for the space of one mile in each direction from the proposed location, the topography of the banks, the shores of Mobile Bay, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi Sound, or strait connecting Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound, the shore lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the current at all stages, and the soundings accurately showing the bed and channel of the pass, 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 plans and location of the bridge or constructions are approved by Changes in plans.the Secretary of War they shall not be built, and should any change be made in the plan of such bridge or constructions during the progress of construction thereof, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War.
Sec. 3. That no tramway, track, roadbed, wharf, pier, or other structure shall be built upon the United States military reservation Secretary of War to approve structures, etc.on Dauphin Island without the approval and consent of the Secretary of War, and said structures shall be removed by the parties owning or controlling the same, at their own expense, when the Secretary of War so requires. Sec. 4. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction Commencement and completion.of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within two years and completed within three years from the date hereof.
Sec. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is herebyAmendment, etc. expressly reserved, and the right to require any changes in said Removal, etc.structure, or its removal, is also expressly reserved. Approved, September 26, 1890. Chapter 941: authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Tennessee River at or near Knoxville, Tennessee. Chapter 941 26 Stat. 481 1890-09-26 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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