Chapter 1122. To authorize the county commissioners of Crow Wing County, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at a point between Pine River and Dean Brook, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War
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CHAP. 1122.— An Act To authorize the county commissioners of Crow Wing County, in the State of Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at a point between Pine River and Dean Brook, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. June 18, 1902.[[Public, No. 163](/us/pl/57/163).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That permission and authority Mississippi River.Bridge across by Crow Wing Co., Minn., authorized.Location. is hereby granted, and consent is hereby given, to the building of a bridge across the Mississippi River by the county commissioners of Crow Wing County, in the State of Minnesota, at a point between the mouths of Pine River and Dean Brook: *Provided*, That the plans for *Proviso*.Approval of plans. such bridge shall first be submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War. 392 Sec. 2.
Lawful structure and post route. That said bridge shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post route, and shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post roads in the United States; and no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, troops, and munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroad or railroads leading Telegraph, etc., rights. to said bridge. Equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph companies, and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for postal-telegraph Changes. purposes, and all changes in said bridge required by the Secretary of War at any time, or its entire removal, shall be at the expense of the corporation owning or operating said bridge.
Sec. 3. Time of construction. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within two years and completed within four years from the date of approval thereof. Sec. 4. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 18, 1902.