Chapter 281. to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, two bridges across the Bering River, in the District of Alaska, to be located as follows: Location
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CHAP. 281.— AN ACT To authorize the Controller Railway and Navigation Company to construct two bridges across the Bering River, in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes. March 4, 1911.[[H.R. 32842](/us/bill/36/hr/32842).][[Public, No. 521](/us/bill/36/pl/521).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Controller Railway and Navigation CompanyAlaska., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to construct, maintain, and operate, in accordance with the provisions of the Controller Railway and Navigation Company may construct two bridges across Bering River.Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, two bridges across the Bering River, in the District of Alaska, to be located as follows:
Location.The upper bridge to cross the said Bering River at a point near the mouth of Stillwater Creek, and the lower bridge to cross the Bering River at a point about four miles above Bering Lake; also to extend its line of railway from the terminus of its line on the north shore of Controller Bay, as shown on its map of definite location filed in the Land Department Extension of line.December fourteenth, nineteen bundled and ten, on and over the tide lands and navigable waters of Alaska in said Controller Bay to the main channel, and to construct, build, erect, maintain, use, and operate at the end of such line of railway, when so extended upon said main channel, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, necessary wharves, docks, slips, waterways, and coal and oil bunkers, provided that the extent of and the plans for such structuresWharves, etc.are recommended by the Chief of Engineers and approved by the Secretary of War, in accordance with the provisions of section ten of the river and harbor ActVol. 30, p. 1151.approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
Sec.2.That the said Controller Railway and Navigation CompanyRight of way over tide and shore lands., its successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to use, in the construction and maintenance of said extension of said line of railway, a right of way on, through, and over the tide and shore lands of the United States actually necessary to connect its railway with the navigable waters in said Controller Bay, not to exceed one hundred feet on each side of the center line of such extension of said line of rail1361way: *Provided,**Proviso.*That the easement hereby authorized may be exclusively exercised so long as said railway is maintained and operated for railroad purposes, but that nothing in this Act containedConditions.shall be construed as impairing the right of the United States, or of any State that may hereafter be erected out of this District, to regulate the useRegulations, charges, etc.of said right of way and the pier or dock herein authorized to be constructed, nor the right of the United States or of any such State to fix reasonable charges for the use of any pier, dock, or wharf constructed or maintained hereunder, nor shall it in anywise interfere with the authority on the part of the Secretary of the Interior to accord wharfage and other privileges in front of reserved areas, as provided in the Act of May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, Vol. 30, p. 409.entitled “An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for right of way for railroads in Alaska, and for other purposes.
” Sec.3.That the title Title not transferred.to all lands occupied under this Act shall remain in the United States, subject to the use hereby authorized, and the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 4, 1911.