Chapter 42. To authorize the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Arkansas and other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas
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Chap. 42: To authorize the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Arkansas and other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas. Chapter 42 30 Stat. 782 1899-01-10 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 2025-11-03 55 3 30 public chap. 42.— An Act To authorize the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Arkansas and other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas.
January 10, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Choctaw anti Momphix Railroad may bridge Arkansas River, etc.States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Choctaw and Memphis Railroad Company, a corporation created and existing by virtue of the law of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain bridges across the Arkansas River and such other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas as may be necessary for the crossing of said rivers with its railroad line at such points as may be selected by the said railroad company and Transit of vehicles, etc.approved by the Secretary of War.
Said bridges shall be constructed to provide for the passage of railroad trains, and, at the option of said railroad company by which they may be built, may be used for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, Tolls.and for foot passengers, for such reasonable rates of toll as may be fixed by the said railroad company and approved by the Secretary of War. Sec. 2. To be lawful structures and post routes.That any bridges built under this Act and subject to its limitations shall be lawful structures, and shall be recognized and known as post routes; and they shall enjoy the same rights and privilegesTelegraph and telephone. as other post roads in the United States; and equal privileges in the use of said bridges shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies; and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridges and their approaches for postal telegraph purposes.
Sec. 3. Railroads.—equal rights to use.That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridges shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway trains over the same and over the approaches thereto, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; —disagreements of with owner of bridges.and in ease the owner or owners of said bridges and the several railroad companies, or any of them desiring such use, shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon the rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridges, 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.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Chs. 42–44. 1899. 783 Sec. 4. That all bridges authorized to be constructed under this ActSecretary of War to approve plane, etc. shall be built under and subject to such regulations for the security of the navigation of the rivers over which they may be built as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War for his examination and approval designs and drawings of the bridges and maps of locations selected; and until the said plans and locations are approved by the Secretary of War the bridges shall not be commenced or built; and should any changes be made in the plans of said bridges, or any one of—changes. them, during the progress of construction, such changes shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, and all changes in said bridges, or any one of them, required by the Secretary of War at any time, or their entire removal, shall be at the expense of the corporations or persons owning or operating said bridges.
Sec. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Sec. 6. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction ofCommencement and completion. the bridges herein authorized is not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date thereof. Approved, January 10, 1899.
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