Chapter 346. Granting to Keokuk and Hamilton Water Power Company right to construct and maintain wing dam, canal, and power station in the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Illinois
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CHAP. 346.— An Act Granting to Keokuk and Hamilton Water Power Company right to construct and maintain wing dam, canal, and power station in the Mississippi River in Hancock County, Illinois. February 8, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Keokuk and Hamilton Water Power Company may dam, etc., Mississippi River in Hancock County, Ill. That the assent of Congress is hereby given to the Keokuk and Hamilton Water Power Company, a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, to erect, construct, operate, and maintain a canal along the east bank of the Mississippi River, between Nauvoo and Hamilton, in Hancock County, in the State of Illinois, to erect, construct, operate, and maintain a power station thereon, and to project, erect, construct, operate, and maintain a wing dam five hundred feet into the river from the head of the said canal, and to make such other dams and improvements as may be necessary within .said limits for the development of water power and the generation, use. and transmission therefrom of electric energy and power at, in, and upon the Des Moines Rapids of the Mississippi River: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Existing low-water channel Des Moines Rapids, etc. construction hereby authorized do not in any way interfere with the existing low-water channel over the Des Moines Rapids, or with the interests of navigation: *And provided further*, That until the plansApproval of plans. and location of the works herein authorized, so far as they affect the interests of navigation, have been approved by the Secretary of War the canal or other improvements shall not be commenced or built.
Sec. 2. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction ofCommencement and completion. the works herein authorized be not commenced within three years and completed within six years from the date hereof. Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 8, 1901.