Chapter 396. Authorizing the Lone Star Canal Company, of Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, to erect a dam across the mouth of Turtle Bay, and for other purposes
393 words·~2 min read·
/statutes-at-large/vol-36/chapter-396-3456519·A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
CHAP. 396.— An Act Authorizing the Lone Star Canal Company, of Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, to erect a dam across the mouth of Turtle Bay, and for other purposes. June 25, 1910.[[H. R. 12353](/us/bill/61/hr/12353).][[Public Law 278](/us/pl/61/278).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Turtle Bay, Tex. Lone Star Canal Company may dam. That the Lone Star Canal Company, of Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas, be, and hereby is, authorized, under the supervision of the Secretary of War, to construct and maintain a bulkhead or dam across the mouth of Turtle Bay, north of Browns Pass of the Trinity River, commencing on the mainland abutting on the property of said company, extending westwardly about one thousand nine hundred feet to a point three hundred feet north of the mouth of said Browns Pass, abutting on state land: *Proviso*.
Lock. *Provided*, That said company shall, at its own expense, provide and keep a lock in said bulkhead or dam at such place and of such dimensions as may be approved by the Secretary of War. Sec. 2. Closing passes. That said company, under the supervision of the Secretary of War, is hereby authorized to close by dam all passes from the Trinity River to said Turtle Bay, also Jacks Pass, connecting Trinity River with Galveston Bay. Sec. 3. Ditch from Trinity River to Smiths Bayou.
That said company, after it shall have acquired title to the right of way, shall have and is hereby granted authority to cut a ditch of such depth and dimensions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War from the Trinity River, opposite the junction of Old and Trinity rivers, to Smiths Bayou. Sec. 4. Construction. That the work herein authorized shall not be commenced until the plans therefor shall have been filed in the War Department, and that the said work shall be constructed under the provisions of Vol. 34, p. 386. the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters,” approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred *Ante*., p. 593. and six, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved June, nineteen hundred and ten, so far as the same may he hereto applicable.
Sec. 5. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 25, 1910.