Chapter 123. granting the right and authority to the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company, a company organized under the laws of the States of Florida and Alabama, to build one bridge over each of the following-named rivers in the State of Alabama, namely: The Alabama River, the Warrior River,
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CHAP. 123.— An Act granting the right and authority to the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company, a company organized under the laws of the States of Florida and Alabama, to build one bridge over each of the following-named rivers in the State of Alabama, namely: The Alabama River, the Warrior River, the Sipsey River and the Tennessee River: the said bridges to be used by the Mexican Gulf. Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company in carrying freight and passengers by rail and otherwise.June 21, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railway may bridge Alabama, Warrior, Tennessee, and Sipsey rivers, Ala.
That the Mexican Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound Railroad Company, a railroad corporation organized under the laws of the States of Florida and Alabama, is hereby authorized and empowered to construct, maintain, and operate one bridge over and across each of the following-named rivers, all in the State of Alabama: The Alabama River at a point in Monroe and Clarke Counties. or in Wilcox County, Alabama; the Warrior River at a point in Hale and Greene Counties, Alabama, or at a point in Marengo and Greene Counties, Alabama; the Tennessee River at a point in the counties of Colbert and Lauderdale, Alabama; the Sipsey River at a point in Pickens or Tuscaloosa Counties, Alabama; and to lay railroadRailroad bridges. tracks on the said bridges and to run trains on the same: *Provided*,*Provisos*.
That the said bridges shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation as the Secretary ofSecretary of War to approve 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, designs and drawings of the bridges and complete hydrographic and topographic maps of the rivers and their banks from one. mile above to one-half mile below the proposed crossings; and no bridge shall be commenced or built under the provisions of this act until the plan and location thereof have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That said bridgesUnobstructed navigation. shall be all times so managed and kept as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels through or under them; and for the safety of vessels passing at night there shall be displayed on said bridges, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals as theLights, etc.
Light-House Board may prescribe; and all changes in said bridgesChanges. required by the Secretary of War at any time, or their entire removal, shall be at the expense of the corporations or persons owning or operating said bridges. 54 Sec. 2. That the bridges constructed under this act and according toLawful structures and. post routes. its limitations shall be lawful structures and shall be known as post routes, and the same are hereby declared to be post routes, upon which also no higher charge shall lie made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, freight, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads and public highways leading to said bridges; and equal privileges in the use of said bridges shall be granted to all telegraph Postal telegraph.companies, and the United States shall have the right of way for postal-telegraph purposes across said bridges.
Sec. 3. That all railway companies desiring to use said bridges shallUse by other companies. have, and be entitled to, equal rights and privileges in the passage of the same and in the use of the machinery and fixtures thereof and of Terms.all the approaches thereto, under and upon such terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War upon hearing the allegations and proofs of the parties in case they shall not agree. Sec. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is herebyAmendment, etc. expressly reserved.
Sec. 5. That if actual construction of the. bridges herein authorizedCommencement and completion. shall not be commenced within two years from the passage of this act and be completed in four years from the same date, the rights and privileges hereby granted shall cease and be determined. Approved, June 21, 1892.