Chapter 1369. To provide for the construction of a bridge across Rainy River, in the State of Minnesota
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CHAP. 1369.— An Act To provide for the construction of a bridge across Rainy River, in the State of Minnesota. April 6, 1906. [[S. 4825](/us/bill/34/s/4825).] [[Public, No. 86](/us/pl/34/86).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Rainy River BridgeRainy River.Rainy River Bridge Company may bridge, at Pether’s Point, Minn. Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Rainy River at a point known as Pether’s Point, on lot one, in section twenty-five, in township seventy-one north, range twenty- four west, in the county of Itasca, in the State of Minnesota, to a point on the opposite side of the river in the Province of Ontario, being at or near the head of Rainy River where it joins with Rainy Lake, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved*Ante,* p. 84.
March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. Sec. 2. That the bridge hereby authorized shall be a railroadRailroad bridge. bridge, and may be constructed and used for any and all other lawful purposes. Sec. 3. That it shall be competent for said Rainy River BridgeConstruction and operation of bridge. Company, being otherwise duly authorized, so far as necessary, to construct and operate all parts and approaches of the bridge hereby authorized, including those parts and approaches of said bridge which shall lie within the jurisdiction of the Dominion of Canada, or it may construct and operate that portion of said bridge herein authorized which shall lie within the jurisdiction of the United States and join the same to the portion thereof which shall lie within the jurisdiction of said Dominion of Canada and be constructed and operated by any other corporation or company authorized to construct and operate 104such bridge, and it shall be competent for said Rainy River Bridge Company and such other corporation or company, be the same incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States, or any State therein, or the Dominion of Canada, or any province therein, to contract together for the operation and maintenance of said bridge, and to consolidate or amalgamate their respective companies, to the end that said bridge may be constructed, maintained, and operated in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
Sec. 4. Amendment.That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 6, 1906.