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CHAP. 40.— An Act To amend an Act approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, authorizing J. W. Vance and others to construct and maintain a dam and tunnel on the Big Bend of the James River, in Stone County, Missouri, to create electric power.February 17, 1912.[[H. R. 14484](/us/bill/62/hr/14484).][[Public, No. 85](/us/pl/62/85).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,James River. That section one of the Act of Congress entitled An Act to authorize J.
W. Vance and others to constructVol. 36, p. 929, amended. a dam across the James River in Stone County, Missouri, and to divert a portion of its waters through a tunnel into the river again, to create electric power, approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: " “That J. W. Vance, L. L. Allen, C. F. Helwig, and II. V. Worley,Location changed of dam in Big Bend of, in Stone County, Mo. of Pierce City, Missouri; L. B.
Durnill (styled A. B. Durnill in the former Act), D. H. Kemp, Sig Solomon, J. J. Davis, S. A. Chappell, and W. M. West, of Monett, Missouri; M. L. Coleman, M. T. Davis, J. W. Jarrett (a son of the late J. II. Jarrett, deceased), of Aurora, Missouri; and William H. Standish, formerly of Aurora, Missouri, now of Reeds Spring, Stone County, Missouri; L. S. Meyer, F. S. Heffernan, Robert A. Moore, William H. Johnson, J. P. McCammon, M. W. Colbaugh, and W. H. Schreiber, of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, their heirs and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam on the Big Bend of the James River at or near section ten or fourteen in township twenty-three north, range twenty-four west, in the county of Stone and State of Missouri, across the said James River, and to impound thereat such 66 portion of its waters and by canal and tunnel to conduct the same across the Narrows from said point of said Big Bend to the said river again, as may be necessary for electric-power purposes.
Construction, etc.The construction, maintenance, and operation of the dam herein authorized, as well as the determination of the rights and obligations under the permission granted hereby, shall be, in all respects, in Vol. 34, p. 386.accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters.’ approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six.
” " Sec. 2. Time limit.That the privilege granted shall cease and be determined unless the actual construction of the aforesaid dam is commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date of approval of this Act. Sec. 3. Amendment.That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act in whole or in part is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 17, 1912.