Chapter 358. Authorizing the Mount Carmel Development Company to draw water from Wabash River at Grand Rapids, Wabash County, Illinois
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CHAP. 358.— An Act Authorizing the Mount Carmel Development Company to draw water from Wabash River at Grand Rapids, Wabash County, Illinois. February 12, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mount Carmel Development Company may draw water from Wabash River at Grand Rapids, Ill. That the Mount Carmel Development Company, a corporation chartered by the State of Illinois as of the date of October twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, be, and the same is hereby, authorized and empowered to draw, by canal, flume, or race, from the pool of the Grand Rapids dam of the Wabash River, in the county of Wabash and State of Illinois, such supply of water as may be necessary or required for the purposes of said corporation during the continuance of said corporation: *Provided*, That such withdrawal*Provisos*.—control of supply, etc. of water shall not be so great as to be detrimental to the navigation of said Wabash River, and shall be under the direction and control of the Secretary of War: *And provided further,* That the saidSecretary of War to approve plans. corporation shall submit detailed plans, showing the location and method of construction of said canal, flume, or race, to the Secretary of War for approval: and until he shall approve the same the work hereby authorized shall not be commenced.
Approved, February 12, 1901.