Chapter 189. Permitting the building of a dam between Coon Rapids and the north limits of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, across the Mississippi River
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CHAP. 189.— An Act Permitting the building of a dam between Coon Rapids and the north limits of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, across the Mississippi River. April 12, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the consent of Congress Twin City Rapid Transit Company may dam Mississippi River at Coon Rapids, etc. is hereby granted to the Twin City Rapid Transit Company, its successors or assigns, to construct across the Mississippi River, at any point between Coon Rapids and the north line of the limits of the city of Minneapolis, a dam, canal, and works necessarily incident thereto, for water-power purposes.
The said dam shall be so constructed that there can, at any time, be constructed in connection therewith a suitable lock for navigation purposes: *Provided, also*, *Provisos*. That the Government of the United States may at any time take possession Government control. of said dam and appurtenant works and control the same for purposes of navigation by paying the said company the value not exceeding the actual cost of the same, but shall not do so to the destruction of the water power created by said dam to any greater extent than may be necessary to provide proper facilities for navigation: *Provided further*, That the works shall be constructed so as to Passage of saw logs.
Changes. provide for the free passage of saw logs. The said Twin City Rapid Transit Company shall make such change and modification in the works as the Secretary of War may from time to time deem necessary in the interests of navigation, at its own cost and expense: *Provided further*, That in case any litigation arises from the obstruction of the channel Litigation. by the dam, canal, or appurtenant works, the case may be tried in the proper Federal court of the United States in which the works are situated.
Sec. 2. That the right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved: *And provided further*, That suitable fishways, to *Proviso*. Fishways. be approved by the United States Fish Commissioner, shall be constructed and maintained at said dam by the Twin City Rapid Transit Company, its successors or assigns. Sec. 3. That this Act shall become null and void unless the dam Commencement and completion. herein authorized be commenced on or before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and one, and be completed within three years thereafter.
Approved, April 12, 1900.