Chapter 15. To authorize the city of Duluth, Minnesota, to construct and maintain, or cause to be constructed and maintained, a car transfer over the Duluth Canal, and for that purpose to occupy certain lands of the United States
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CHAP. 15.— An Act To authorize the city of Duluth, Minnesota, to construct and maintain, or cause to be constructed and maintained, a car transfer over the Duluth Canal, and for that purpose to occupy certain lands of the United States. February 7, 1902.[[Public, No. 7](/us/pl/57/7).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the city of Duluth, Duluth Canal. Duluth, Minn., authorized to construct car transfer across.Minnesota, is hereby authorized to construct and maintain, or cause to be constructed and maintained, a suspended car transfer, or aerial ferry, over the Duluth Canal on the line of Lake avenue, in said city, and for that purpose to locate the towers and approaches of said structure on the lands of the United States pertaining to said canal, as indicated and set forth on plans and drawings attached to a certain revocable license issued by the Secretary of War to the city of Duluth under date of September sixth, nineteen hundred and one, now on tile in the War Department: *Provided,* That in the maintenance of the *Provisos.* Conditions.said structure, and in the use and occupancy of the lands of the United States, the said city of Duluth shall conform to the conditions prescribed and enumerated in the aforesaid revocable license, and to the following additional conditions:
(First) That the bridge shall have a clear height of at least one hundred and thirty-five feet above ordinary high water; (second) that the transfer car shall have a clear height of at least six feet above the promenade of the United States concrete piers; (third) that the erection of the bridge shall be carried on in such a manner as to cause the least obstruction to navigation, and the location of the false works, the extent to which they shall occupy the canal, the period of such occupancy, and other details of like character shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War;
(fourth) that the United States lands, retaining walls, and other details of the approaches must be of a character approved by the United States engineer officer in charge of the district, and the motive power for propelling the transfer car must be satisfactory to him: *Provided further,* 4ChangesThat the city of Duluth shall make any changes in the said structure and any changes in the towers and approaches located on the said lands of the United States which the Secretary of War may from time to time prescribe.
Amendment. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 7, 1902.