Chapter 62. Authorizing the El Reno Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the South Canadian River, between Blaine County, Oklahoma, and the Wichita Indian Reservation
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CHAP. 62.— An Act Authorizing the El Reno Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the South Canadian River, between Blaine County, Oklahoma, and the Wichita Indian Reservation.February 8, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,El Reno Bridge Company may bridge South Canadian River, Okla. That the El Reno Bridge Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma, and its successors or assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto Location.across the South Canadian River, between a point in Blaine County and the Wichita and Caddo Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Oklahoma, on section twenty-eight, township thirteen north, of range eleven west; said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, foot passengers, and all kinds of commerce, travel, and communications, and said corporation may charge and receive such reasonable tolls therefor Tolls.as may be permitted by the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma.
Sec. 2. That the bridge constructed under this Act shall be a lawfulLawful structure and post route. structure and shall be recognized as a post route, upon which no charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, troops, and munitions of war of the United States; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph companies; and “Postal telegraph.the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge *Provisos*.Secretary of War to approve plan, etc.and approaches for postal telegraph purposes: *Provided*, That before the construction of any bridge herein authorized is commenced the said company shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawing of such bridge and a map of the location, giving sufficient information to enable the Secretary of War to fully and satisfactorily understand the subject, and unless the plan and location of such bridge are approved by the Secretary of War the structure Free navigation.shall not be built: *Provided also*, That any bridge constructed under authority of this Act shall at all times be so kept and managed as to otter reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels and other water craft through or under said structure; and for the safety of vessels passing at night there shall be displayed on said bridge, from Lights, etc.sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals as may be prescribed by the Light-House Board.
Sec. 3. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction ofCommencement and completion. the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the approval of this Act. Sec. 4. That Congress shall have power at any time to alter, amend,Amendment, etc. or repeal this Act, or any part thereof, if in its judgment the public interests so require. Approved, February 8, 1895. Chapter 63: Authorizing the Board of Commissioners of the Soldiers’ Home in the, District of Columbia to sell certain property known as the “Asylum lot,” on Pascagoula Bay, Mississippi.
Chapter 63 28 Stat. 645 1895-02-08 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. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-15 53 3 public FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 63, 64. 1895.645
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Authorizing the El Reno Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the South Canadian River, between Blaine County, Oklahoma, and the Wichita Indian Reservation
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