Chapter 173. To amend “An Act to authorize the Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company, its successors or assigns, to construct and maintain a bridge, or bridges, or viaducts, across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point, and Dauphin Island, both Little and Big; also to dredge a channel from t
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CHAP. 173.— An Act To amend “An Act to authorize the Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company, its successors or assigns, to construct and maintain a bridge, or bridges, or viaducts, across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point, and Dauphin Island, both Little and Big; also to dredge a channel from the deep waters of Mobile Bay into Dauphin Bay; also to construct and maintain docks and wharves along both Little and Big Dauphin Islands.”June 18, 1912. [[H. R. 23799](/us/bill/62/hr/23799).] [[Public, No. 198](/us/pl/62/198).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mobile Bay, Ala.Construction of bridges, etc., across waters of, by Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company.
That section one of the Act of Congress approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, 137entitled “An Act to authorize the Dauphin Island Railway and HarborVol. 36, p. 868, amended. Company, its successors or assigns, to construct and maintain a bridge, or bridges, or viaducts, across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point, and Dauphin Island, both Little and Big; also to dredge a channel from the deep waters of Mobile Bay into Dauphin Bay, and to dredge the said Dauphin Bay; also to construct and maintain docks and wharves along both Little and Big Dauphin Islands,” be amended to read as follows:
" That the Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company, a corporationConstruction modified. existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges, and approaches thereto, between the mainland at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, both Little and Big, situated in Mobile County, State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitledVol. 34, p. 84.
“An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided*, That the authority hereby granted shall be considered as *Proviso*.Time for completion extended.Vol. 36, p. 869, amended.withdrawn and deemed to be revoked if the said bridge or bridges and approaches thereto be not constructed and put in operation by or before the eighteenth day of September, nineteen hundred and sixteen. " Approved, June 18, 1912.