Chapter 204. Authorizing the Choctawhatchee River Light and Power Company to erect a dam across the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County, Alabama
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CHAP. 204.— An Act Authorizing the Choctawhatchee River Light and Power Company to erect a dam across the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County, Alabama. July 5, 1912.[[H. R. 22006](/us/bill/62/hr/22006).][[Public, No. 214](/us/pl/62/214).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Choctawhatchee River.Choctawhatchee River Light and Power Company may dam, in Dale County, Ala. That the Choctawhatchee River Light and Power Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Choctawhatchee River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at a point about one-eighth of a mile below or west of the bridge across said river, on the road known as the Newton and Ozark Public Road, in Dale County, in the State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to amend an ActVol. 36, p. 593. entitled ‘An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters,’ approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six.
” Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, July 5, 1912.