Chapter 3604. To amend An Act entitled “An Act to legalize and establish a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and to authorize the construction of a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa.” June 29, 1906. [[S. 6483](/us/bill/59/s/6483).] [[Public, No. 350](/us/pl/59/350).] *
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CHAP. 3604.— An Act To amend An Act entitled “An Act to legalize and establish a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and to authorize the construction of a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa.” June 29, 1906. [[S. 6483](/us/bill/59/s/6483).] [[Public, No. 350](/us/pl/59/350).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Act entitled “An Mississippi River. Replacing of pontoon drawbridge across, at Prairie du Chien authorized.
Vol. 18, p. 62, amended. Act to legalize and establish a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and to authorize the construction of a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa,” approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to permit the owners of the said bridge to replace the present pontoon draw in the east or minor channel of the river at Prairie du Chien with and to maintain a suitable draw span with two openings Description of draw. each of not less than one hundred and sixty feet in the clear at low water, and at a clear height of not less than twenty-eight feet above low water and at such point and with such proper ways and means for the safe passage through or under it of vessels or rafts as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Approved, June 29, 1906.