Chapter 96. to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six

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CHAP. 96.— AN ACT To authorize the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River. April 28, 1916.[[H. R. 9909](/us/bill/64/hr/9909).][[Public, No. 63](/us/pl/64/63).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Chicago, Milwaukee Missouri River. Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company may bridge, at Chamberlain, S. Dak.and Saint Paul Railway Company, its successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge, and approaches thereto, across the Missouri River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, said bridge to extend from a point on the west bank of said river in the county of Lyman to a point in or Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.near the city of Chamberlain, in Brule County, in the State of South Dakota, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. Repeal of Act authorizing pontoon bridge of White River Valley Company. Vol. 33, p. 711. Sec. 2. That the Act of Congress, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and five, which granted to the White River Valley Company, its successors and assigns, the right to construct and maintain a pontoon and pile bridge across said Missouri River from a point on the west bank of said river in the county of Lyman, to a point on the east bank of said river in or near the city of Chamberlain, in Temporary maintenance.Brule County, in the State of South Dakota, is hereby repealed, but permission is hereby granted to maintain the present pontoon and pile bridge for two years from and after the date of this Act: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Use during construction of other bridge.That if, on or before two years from and after the date of this Act, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War that actual construction of the bridge herein authorized has been commenced, then the said company, its successors or assigns, is hereby granted permission to maintain said pontoon and pile bridge during the period of construction of the bridge herein authorized 59but in no case is said company granted permission to maintain said pontoon and pile bridge for a period longer than four years from and after the date of this Act.

Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment.expressly reserved. Approved, April 28, 1916.