Chapter 105. To authorize the relocation and rebuilding of a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
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CHAP. 105.— An Act To authorize the relocation and rebuilding of a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. March 30, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway may rebridge, etc. Mississippi Rivei at Prairie du Chieu, Wis., etc.Vol. 18. p. 62. That the railway pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River and an island therein, between Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and North McGregor, Iowa, legalized and established by the Act of Congress approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 105, 113. 1898. 351 seventy-four, may be relocated and rebuilt by the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company, the present owner of the bridge, in accordance with such plans and at such location as may be approved by the Secretary of War and subject to the same limitations and requirements, except as to the changes in structure approved by theChanges. Secretary of War, as are provided in the Act of Congress approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, hereinbefore named: *Provided,* That the length of channel spans of the new structure shall*Proviso.*Length of channel spans. not be less than the length of such spans in the existing bridge.
Approved, March 30, 1898.