Chapter 66. To authorize the North Alabama Traction Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Decatur, Alabama
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CHAP. 66.— An Act To authorize the North Alabama Traction Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Tennessee River at or near Decatur, Alabama. February 27, 1915.[[H. R. 17168](/us/bill/63/hr/17168).][[Public, No. 258](/us/pl/63/258).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the North Alabama TractionTennessee River.North Alabama Traction Company may bridge, at Decatur, Ala.
Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, its successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and all approaches thereto across the Tennessee River at or near Decatur, Alabama, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisionsConstruction.Vol. 34. p. 84. of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided*, That said bridge shall be constructed,*Proviso*.Roadway approach, etc. maintained, and operated so that it may be used for steam and electric railroad purposes, and shall be provided with an adequate and separate roadway and approach for the continuous use by the public as a highway bridge, to be used by vehicles, pedestrians, horsemen, animals, and all kinds of highway traffic and travel, for the transit of which reasonable rates of toll may be charged and received, in accordance with the provisions of the aforementioned Act, but no rate for passage of a single passenger on a railroad train shall exceed 25 cents.
Sec. 2. That the North Alabama Traction Company may not beConstruction of approaches. required to construct that portion of the approaches on either side of said bridge that are required to make the same ready for vehicles, pedestrians, and other highway traffic until there shall be paid to said company, or secured to its use by local authorities or interests, the sum of $50,000, and said company shall not be required thereafter816 to maintain or bear any of the costs of maintaining such portions of said approaches, and shall not collect or receive tolls for use of said approaches.
Sec. 3. Transfer of approaches, etc. That the North Alabama Traction Company shall have the right to sell, transfer, or lease to any county, city, or other municipality any part of such portions of said approaches or of the separate roadway provided for in this Act, or both, and in the event of such sale, transfer, or lease the said North Alabama Traction Company shall not thereafter charge or receive any tolls for use of said wagon way and approaches. Sec. 4. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved, February 27, 1915.