LAWS AFFECTING THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY, FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION. 1897-1898. 3787 LAWS AFFECTING THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS, UNITED STATES ARMY. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, 1897-1898. PUBLIC ACTS. CHAP. 11.—An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent defi- January 28, 1898. ciencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes. ciencies appro Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Urgent defi the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropri- priations. ated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely: DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. * Nicaragua Ca 26, p. 948. Surveys, etc. NICARAGUA CANAL COMMISSION: To continue the sur-nal Commission. veys and examinations authorized by the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes," into the proper route, the feasibility and cost of construction of the Nicaragua Canal, with the view of making complete plans for the entire work of construction of such canal as therein provided, one hundred thousand dollars; to continue available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. * * Approved, January 28, 1898. 3789 February 3, 1898. Ouachita River, CHAP. 13.-An Act To amend and reenact section five of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the mayor and city council of Monroe, and the police jury of the parish of Ouachita, Louisiana, to construct a traffic bridge across the Ouachita River, opposite said city," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Bridge over of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section five of an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the mayor and city council of Monroe, and the police jury of the parish of Ouachita, Louisiana, to construct a traffic Vol. 29, p. 516. bridge across the Ouachita River, opposite said city," be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: Time for commencement and tended. "SEC. 5. That this Act shall be null and void if actual completion ex-construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced by the eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and completed within three years from the date of the approval hereof.” Approved, February 3, 1898. February 14, 1898. CHAP. 17.-An Act Authorizing the construction of two bridges across the Choctawhatchee River, a navigable stream, in Dale County, Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Dale County, of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Ala., may the court of county commissioners of Dale County, in hatchee River, the State of Alabama, be, and is hereby, authorized to at Newton, etc. construct, maintain, and operate two bridges across the bridge Choctaw Secretary of scribe regula tions. Choctawhatchee River, a navigable stream, in the county of Dale, State of Alabama, one of said bridges to be located near the town of Newton, at or near the place where the bridge formerly stood on the Newton and Ozark wagon road, and the other one of said bridges to be located at or near where the bridge called the Hollis Bridge formerly stood. SEC. 2. That said bridges shall be located and built War to pre- under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation as the Secretary of War may prescribe; and to secure that object the said court of county commissioners shall submit for his examination designs and drawings of the bridges and maps of the locations, and until the to approve said plans and locations are approved by him the bridges shall not be commenced or built; and should any changes be made in either of said bridges, before or after completion, such changes shall be likewise subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. plans. -changes. Aids to navi. gation. Lights. Changes. SEC. 3. That the said bridges shall be so kept and managed as to offer reasonable and proper means for the passage of vessels and other craft through or under the same; and for the safety of vessels passing at night there shall be displayed on said bridges from sunset to sunrise, at the expense of the owners thereof, such lights or other signals as the Light-House Board may prescribe. And any changes in either of said bridges which the Secretary of War may at any time deem necessary, and order in the interests of navigation, shall be made by the owners thereof at their own expense. pletion. SEC. 4. That this Act shall be null and void if actual Commenceconstruction of both the said bridges be not commenced ment and comin one year and completed in three years from the date hereof. SEC. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 14, 1898. Right amend, etc. 1898. to CHAP. 23.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act declaring a February 15, certain bridge across the Tallahatchie River, in Tallahatchie County, State of Mississippi, a lawful structure, and for other purposes, approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives hatchie River, of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Bridge, Talla the time fixed by section seven of an Act entitled "An Act Mississippi. declaring a certain bridge across the Tallahatchie River, in Tallahatchie County, State of Mississippi, a lawful structure, and for other purposes," approved May twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, within which the bridge authorized by that Act to be constructed across the Tallahatchie River, in the State of Mississippi, was required to be completed, be, and the same is hereby, extended until the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; and if said bridge shall be com-Extension of pleted by that date all of the provisions of the Act aforesaid tion. shall be and remain in full force and effect, notwithstanding the failure to complete the said bridge within the time therein fixed. Approved, February 15, 1898. time for comple CHAP. 24.-An Act To authorize the construction of a steel bridge February 15, over the Snake River between the States of Washington and Idaho. 1898. cord Bridge bridge Snake Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Lewiston-Conthe Lewiston-Concord Bridge Company, a corporation Company may organized and existing under the laws of the State of River at LewisWashington, its successors and assigns, be, and the same ton, Idaho, etc. is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto over the Snake River between the States of Washington and Idaho, extending from a point in the city of Lewiston, Idaho, to a point in Asotin County, opposite, in the State of Washington. Said bridge shall, Transit of vebe constructed to provide for the passage of street-railway cars, and for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, and for the transit of animals, and for foot passengers, and for the support of pipes and electric conduits, and for any other proper use, and said company, its successors and assigns, may collect reasonable rates of toll Toll. for such uses of said bridge, said rates of toll being first submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War before being put in force. hicles, etc. |