Chapter 250. To legalize and maintain the iron bridge across Pearl River at Rockport, Mississippi
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CHAP. 250.— An Act To legalize and maintain the iron bridge across Pearl River at Rockport, Mississippi. April 21, 1900. Whereas the boards of supervisors of Copiah and Simpson counties, Preamble. Mississippi, did, in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, jointly contract for an iron bridge to be built across Pearl River, at Rockport, Mississippi, believing that said stream at this point was practically nonnavigable; that afterwards an injunction was sued out by the Government, restraining contractors, which, being heard before Judge H.
C. Niles, of the district Federal court at Jackson, Mississippi, he decided that the part of Pearl River from Rockport to Jackson was a nonnavigable stream and dissolved the injunction; that an iron bridge was built in accordance with said contract and opened for travel iii August, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, without a draw; that in January, nineteen hundred, an appeal was taken by the Government to the United States circuit court and is now pending; and Whereas said boards of supervisors are desirous of complying with their obligation with the bridge company and giving the citizens of said counties the benefit of said bridge, which is of great public utility:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the bridge aforesaid be, Bridge across Pearl River at Rockport, Miss., legalized. and the same is hereby, legalized and maintained as constructed by said counties for the use of the general public. Sec. 2. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal Amendment. this Act at pleasure. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.] Received by the President, April 10, 1900.