Chapter 95. To authorize the Port Arthur Pleasure Pier Company to construct a bridge across the Sabine-Neches Canal, in front of the town of Port Arthur
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CHAP. 95.— An Act To authorize the Port Arthur Pleasure Pier Company to construct a bridge across the Sabine-Neches Canal, in front of the town of Port Arthur.April 27, 1912.[[H. R. 21960](/us/bill/62/hr/21960).][[Public, No. 137](/us/pl/62/137).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sabine-Neches Canal.Port Arthur Pleasure Pier Company may bridge, Port Arthur, Tex. That the Port Arthur Pleasure Pier Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Texas, and its assigns, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Sabine-Neches Canal, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in front of the town of Port Arthur, in the county of Jefferson, in the State of Texas, 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-three, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided*, That the said Port Arthur Pleasure Pier Company is also*Proviso*.Right of way. authorized to cross and occupy with the aforesaid bridge the land owned by the United States adjacent to and along said canal, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of War may deem equitable and fair to the public. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment.expressly reserved.
Approved, April 27, 1912.