Chapter 229. To amend so much of chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the Statutes of the United States of America, passed at the third session of the Fifty third Congress, and approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as requires that the lower portion of the Rock Island Bridge shall not be occ
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CHAP. 229.— An Act To amend so much of chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the Statutes of the United States of America, passed at the third session of the Fifty third Congress, and approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as requires that the lower portion of the Rock Island Bridge shall not be occupied by any street railway company without paying a reasonable rent therefor. February 15, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the proviso in “An Act Rock Island Arsenal, Ill.
Use of bridge. Vol. 28, p. 942.making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, being chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the Statutes of the United States of America, passed at the third session of the Fifty-third Congress, and which proviso is in the appropriation for the 529Rock Island Bridge, in the following words: *“Provided further,* That Street railway company may use bridges if furnishing electric power for draw.the Secretary of War shall not, under the Act ‘to empower the Secretary of War to permit the establishment, under certain conditions, of a horse railway upon and over the island of Rock Island, and the bridges erected by the United States connecting the cities of Davenport and Rock Island therewith,’ approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, permit the lower section of said bridge to be occupied by any street railway without paying a reasonable rent therefor,” be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding after the final words, “paying a reasonable rent therefor,” the following words:
“unless said company, in lieu of such rent, shall furnish and deliver at the electric motor on the draw of the bridge the necessary and proper electric power for operating the draw, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, so long as said company occupies or uses said bridge for railway purposes.” Approved, February 15, 1897.