Chapter 12. To amend an Act of Congress approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, granting to the Aransas Pass Harbor Company the right to improve Aransas Pass
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CHAP. 12.— An Act To amend an Act of Congress approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, granting to the Aransas Pass Harbor Company the right to improve Aransas Pass.January 22, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Aransas Pass Harbor.Time for constructing work extended.Vol. 26, p. 106. That the Aransas Pass Harbor Company, which is engaged in the improvement of Aransas Pass under the provisions contained in an Act of Congress entitled “An Act tor the improvement of Aransas Pass,” approved May twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety, is hereby relieved from the conditions of said Act which require the construction of said work to be commenced within one year from the date of its approval and to be diligently prosecuted by the expenditure of at least three hundred thousand dollars per annum thereafter, and to secure a navigable depth over the outer bar of fifteen feet of water within three years after the date of approval of said Act, and of twenty feet within live years from said date; and the said company is hereby authorized to continue and complete its work of improvement *Proviso*.Resumption of workas set forth in said Act: *Provided*, That work shall be resumed by the said Aransas Pass Harbor Company within six months from the date of approval of this act, and shall be diligently prosecuted to completion, and said company shall secure a navigable depth over the outer bar of at least twenty feet of water within two years from the date of approval Revocation on failure.of this act.
And in the event of said company failing to resume said 27 work within the said six months, or failing to diligently prosecute the same, or to secure a navigable depth of twenty feet of water over the outer bar within the time required by this act, then Congress may revoke the privileges herein granted in relation to said improvement. Sec. 2. That the right of Congress to alter, amend, or repeal this actAmendment, etc. is hereby reserved. Approved, January 22, 1894.