Chapter 2520. To amend an Act entitled “An Act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River in the county of Morrison, State of Minnesota,” approved June fourth, nineteen hundred and six
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CHAP. 2520.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River in the county of Morrison, State of Minnesota,” approved June fourth, nineteen hundred and six. March 2, 1907. [[S. 8377](/us/bill/34/s/8377).] [[Public, No. 179](/us/pl/34/179).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of an ActMississippi River.Dam across, by Pike Rapids Power Company, in Morrison County, Minn. entitled “An Act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River in the county of Morrison, State of Minnesota.” approved June fourth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “Section. 1. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to theLocation modified.*Ante*, p. 209, amended. Pike Rapids Power Company, a Minnesota corporation, its successors 1220or assigns, to construct and maintain across the Mississippi River a dam, canal, and works necessary incident thereto for water power and supply purposes at a point between sections twenty, twenty-nine, and thirty-two in township one hundred and twenty-eight north, range twenty-nine west of the fifth principal meridian, and sections seventeen and twenty, in township thirty-nine, range thirty-two west of the fourth principal meridian, in Morrison County, Minnesota: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Secretary of War to approve plans, etc.That the plans for the construction of said dam and appurtenant works shall be submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War before the commencement of the Changes.construction of the same: *And provided further*, That the said the Pike Rapids Power Company, its successors or assigns, shall not deviate from such plans after such approval, either before or after the completion of said structures, unless the modifications of such plans shall have previously been submitted to and received the approval of the Chief of Engineers and of the Secretary of War: *And provided further*, Sluiceway.That there shall be placed and maintained in connection with said dam a sluiceway so arranged as to permit logs, timber, and lumber to pass around, through, and over said dam without unreasonable delay or Lock.hinderance and without toll or charges: *And provided further*, That the dam shall be so constructed that the Government of the United States may at any time construct in connection therewith a suitable lock for navigation purposes, and may at any time, without compensation, control the said dam so far as shall be necessary for the purposes of navigation, but shall not destroy the water power developed by said dam and structures to any greater extent than may be necessary to provide proper facilities for navigation, and that the Secretary of War may at any time require and enforce, at the expense of the owners, such modifications and changes in the construction of said dam as he may deem advisable in the interests of navigation.
” " Sec. 2. That section four of said Act above referred to be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Sec. 4. Time of construction.*Ante*, p. 210, amended.That the right to amend, alter, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved, and the same shall become null and void unless the construction of the dam hereby authorized is commenced within one year from June first, nineteen hundred and seven, and completed within three years thereafter, and that except so far as may be otherwise provided *Ante.* p. 386.in this Act, the provision of the Act of Congress entitled ‘An Act to regulate the construction of dams over navigable waters,’ approved on the twenty-first day of June, nineteen hundred and six, shall be applicable to the construction of the dam provided in this Act.
” " Approved, March 2, 1907.