Chapter 322. To give a legal status to the lead of wires of the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company across the Mississippi River
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CHAP. 322.— An Act To give a legal status to the lead of wires of the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company across the Mississippi River. June 22, 1910.[[H. R. 22690](/us/bill/61/hr/22690).][[Public, No. 231](/us/pl/61/231).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mississippi River. Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company may lay cable across, Morgans Point, Ark., to Richardson, Tenn. That the crossing by lead of wires of the Mississippi River between Morgans Point, Arkansas, and Richardson, Tennessee, of the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, to be used for telephone and telegraph purposes, is hereby legalized, and the consent of Congress is hereby given to its maintenance by said company, subject, however, to all the provisions of the statutes now or hereafter in force relating to the preservation and protection *Provisos*.
Changes. of navigable waters: *Provided*, That any changes in the said crossing which the Secretary of War may at any time deem necessary and order in the interest of navigation shall be promptly made by the Plans, etc., to be filed. owners thereof at their own expense: *Provided further*, That within sixty days from the approval of this Act the said company shall furnish, for the files of the War Department, a drawing showing the location and plan of the cable crossing with reference to the banks, bed, and low-water surface of the river.
Sec. 2. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 22, 1910.