Chapter 188. To amend an Act entitled “An Act giving the consent of the United States to the erection of a bridge across Portage Lake, Houghton County, Michigan, between the villages of Houghton and Hancock,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one
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CHAP. 188.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act giving the consent of the United States to the erection of a bridge across Portage Lake, Houghton County, Michigan, between the villages of Houghton and Hancock,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. April 25, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Act entitled “ An ActBridge across Portage Lake, Michigan. giving the consent of the United States to the erection of a bridge across Portage Lake, Houghton County, Michigan, between the villages of Houghton and Hancock,” approved March third, eighteen hundred andVol. 26, p. 833. ninety-one, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding a new section, to stand as section seven, as follows:
" “Sec. 7. That all railroad companies desiring to use that portion ofRights of railroads to use. said bridge constructed for railroad purposes shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges in the passing over the same, and in the use of the machinery and fixtures thereof and of the approaches thereto, for a reasonable compensation, to be paid to the owner or owners thereof; 364 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 188, 189, 191. 1898. Disagreement with owner of bridge.and if the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad companies, or either or any of them desiring such use, shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid under the rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using the same, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War, upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties, of which hearing each party shall have due notice, and the determination of the Secretary of War thereof shall be binding upon the parties to such controversy.
” " Approved, April 25, 1898.