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 38 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 15, 16. 1868. Mum}! 2, 1869- CHAP. XV.—An Act to establish arid declare the Railroad and Bridges of the New · Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Razlroad Company, as hereafter constructed, a Post- Road, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Sbnate and House cj` Representatives of dw United The Nw Or- States of America in Congress assembled, That the New Orleans, Mobile, E;:§,§x;Jl;;°h€‘ and Chattanooga Railroad Company? hereby authlorized and empowered R. C. - to construct, build, and maintain bri ges over an across the naviga e “"“°2 br;l?l;f’;0u waters of the United States on the route of said railroad between New 3;;:;;,33*:;; Qrleans and Mobile, for the use of said company and the passage of its ters. engines, cars, and trains of cars, passengers, mails, and merchandise ltoads and thereon; and said railroad and its bridges aforesa1d, when constructed, }’é;f’tf§l‘issg‘f;2`°d completed, and in use, in accordance with this act and lthe laws 03 the ur, gw, a sg several States throu¤h whose territory the same shal pass, sha be msg- po deemed, recognized, End known as lawful structures and a post road, and Dmwhridges are hereby declared as such: Provided, however, That the said company, LQ 2§;E;L’};*}‘“°d in the construction of its bridges over and across the waters known as the ’ East Pascagoula river, and the Bay of Biloxi, [and] the Bay of St. Louis, shall construct and maintain draw-bridges in the channels thereof, which, when open, shall give a clear space for the passage of vessels of not less than eighty feet in the channels of the East Pascagoula, and of the Bay of Biloxi and of the Bay of St. Louis and of not less than one hundred feet in thb channel of the Great Rivolet; and said com an · shall at all _ ¤ _ P } 0 g';':? t° b° times open the said draw—bridges, and shall provide reasonable and neces- Psary facilities for the passage of all vessels requiring the same, except during and for ten minutes prior to and after the time of the passage of the mail and passenger trains of said company. mghtto SEO. 2. And be it fimilzcr enacted, That the right to alter or amend
 * ):2*;* T; °x` this act, so as to prevent or remove all material obstructions to the naviservcaij gation of said rivers, growing out of the construction of said bridges, is

hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 2, 1868. CHAP. xvi. - An Act exlendin the Tam wu, com Zeticm 0 me mu ue amzsim P 9 g City Railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time for com— States of America uz Congress assembled, That the time for completing E:;l*:’E£*§ig: a line of railroad from. Dubuque to Sioux City, in the State of Iowa, for my ,.,,,;,0,,d cx- the construction o which lands were granted m alternate sections to said tended- h State by act entitled "An act making a grant of lands to the State of V£°f;_°p_‘;8‘ Iowa in alternate sections to aid in the construction of railroads in said 18642·eh.1O3. Smte," approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, be, and V°l· *1**- P- 95- the same is, extended until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, subject to the reverter mentioned in said act at the expiration Route og,-°,,d_ of the time herein limited: Provided, [That] said road shall be constructed on the most practical route by way of Webster City and Fort Dodge to Sioux City, which route shall be at all points within the limits Roto or com- of said land grant, and the same shall be completed to Fort Dodge on or Pl°**°”· before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and there Road to be after at the rate of not less than forty miles each year; and the said road one line. shall be constructed, operated, and maintained as one continuous and unlimitation to broken lme of road from Dubuque to Sioux City; and no lands shall be d15P<>¤¤l<>1"i¤¤d¤·. disposed of; or patented, or certified for said purposes more than forty miles in advance of the point to which said road may be constructed from time to time. Armovnn, March 2, 1868.