Chapter 141. Authorizing the Missouri and Meramec Water Company to take water from the Missouri River, and to construct and maintain a dam or other devices for that purpose
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CHAP. 141.— An Act Authorizing the Missouri and Meramec Water Company to take water from the Missouri River, and to construct and maintain a dam or other devices for that purpose. March 10, 1902.[[Public, No. 29](/us/pl/57/29).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Missouri and Meramec Missouri River. Missouri and Meramec Water Company may dam, etc. Water supply.Water Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Missouri, its successors and assigns, be, and they 56are hereby, authorized and empowered to draw, by canal, flume, or race, from the Missouri River, at or near a point about eight miles above Creve Coeur Lake, in the county of Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri, such supply of water as may be necessary or required for the purposes of said corporation, and to conduct and discharge said water not otherwise used at a point on the Meramec River in the neighbor-hood of Meramec Highlands, in the county of Saint Louis and State of Missouri; also to erect, construct, operate, and maintain for that purpose such dams (including a weir dam in the Missouri River at the head of said canal), regulating devices, locks, and other structures and *Provisos.* Unobstructed navigation.improvements as may be required: *Provided,* That such withdrawal and discharge at any time of water shall not be so great as to interfere with the navigation of said Missouri or Meramec River: *And provided further,* Secretary of War to approve plans, etc.That said corporation shall submit detailed plans showing the location and method of constructing said dams, devices, locks, and other structures and canal to the Secretary of War for his consideration and approval, and until the plans and location of the work herein authorized. so far as they affect the navigation of said rivers, shall have been approved by the Secretary of War they shall not be commenced or built.
Time of construction. Sec. 2. That unless the work herein authorized be commenced within one year and completed within five years from the date hereof the privileges granted shall cease and determine. Amendment. Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 10, 1902.