Chapter 42. To authorize the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company to construct a bascule bridge across the Calumet River at South Chicago, Illinois
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CHAP. 42.— An Act To authorize the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company to construct a bascule bridge across the Calumet River at South Chicago, Illinois.February 17, 1912.[[H. R. 16676](/us/bill/62/hr/16676).][[Public, No. 87](/us/pl/62/87).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Calumet River.Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, may bridge, at South Chicago, Ill. That the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, a corporation doing business under the laws of the State of Illinois, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bascule bridge, and approaches thereto, across the Calumet River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at South Chicago, Illinois, to take the place of the existing bridge now being operated by said company across said river along its present right of way, in accordance with the provisions of Vol. 34, p. 84.the Act, entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.
Sec. 2. Amendment.That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 17, 1912.