Chapter 30. Granting to the Des Moines Rapids Power Company the right to erect, construct, operate, and maintain a wing dam, canal, and power station in the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Illinois
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CHAP. 30.— An Act Granting to the Des Moines Rapids Power Company the right to erect, construct, operate, and maintain a wing dam, canal, and power station in the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Illinois.February 24, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Des Moines Rapids Power Company may build dam, etc., Mississippi River, Ill. That the assent of Congress is hereby given to the Des Moines Rapids Power Company, a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, to erect, construct, operate, and maintain a canal along the east bank of the Mississippi River, between Nauvoo and Hamilton, in Hancock County, in the State of Illinois, to erect, construct, operate, and maintain a power station thereon, and to project, erect, construct, operate, and maintain a wing dam live hundred feet into the river from the head of said canal, and to make such other improvements as may be necessary within said limit for the development of water power and the generation, use, and transmission there-form of electric energy and power at, in, and upon the Des Moines *Provisos*.Navigation not obstructed.Rapids of the Mississippi River: *Provided*, That the constructions hereby authorized do not in any way interfere with the existing low-water channel over the Des Moines Rapids, or with any interests of Secretary of War to approve plans, etc.navigation: *And provided further*, That until the plans and locations of the works herein authorized, so far as they affect the interests of navigation, have been approved by the Secretary of War the canal shall not be commenced or built.
Sec. 2. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction ofCommencement and Completion. the works herein authorized be not commenced within two years and completed within four years from the. date hereof. Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is herebyAmendment, etc. expressly reserved. Approved, February 24, 1894.