Chapter 55. To authorize the Twin City Power Company to build, operate, and maintain three dams across the Savannah River, above the city of Augusta in the State of Georgia
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CHAP. 55.— An Act To authorize the Twin City Power Company to build, operate, and maintain three dams across the Savannah River, above the city of Augusta in the State of Georgia. February 29, 1908.[[S. 3726](/us/bill/70/s/3726).][[Public, No 36.](/us/pl/70/93)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Twin City PowerSavannah River.Twin City Power Company may dam. Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of South Carolina, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Savannah River, at or near where Dortons Creek, in the county of Edgefield,Dortons Creek, S.
C. State of South Carolina, empties into the Savannah River, and also a dam across the said river at or near the southern end of Prices Island,Prices Island, S. C. in said river, and about five miles from the mouth of Dortons Creek, in the State of South Carolina, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of dams acrossVol. 34, p. 386. navigable waters, approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided*, That one of said dams shall be completed within three*Proviso*.Time of completion. years and the other within five years from the passage of this Act.
Sec. 2. That the said Twin City Power Company is authorized toCrouchs Bluff. construct, operate, and maintain a dam across the Savannah River at what is known as Crouchs Bluff, in Edgefield County, South Carolina: *Provided*, That the said site at Crouchs Bluff can be obtained by contract*Provisos*.Site. from the owners thereof: *And provided further*, That said dam at Crouchs Bluff shall be constructed under the provisions of the said Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided further*,Vol. 34, p. 386.
That said dam if constructed at Crouchs Bluff shall be completedTime of completion. within three years. Sec. 3. That the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Twin CityRepeal of former act. Power Company to build two dams across the Savannah River, above 37 the city of Augusta, in the State of Georgia,” approved FebruaryVol. 34, p. 1000. twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved.
Approved, February 29, 1908.