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 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 356, 357. 1886. G7 thereof, shall be lawful structures ; and said bridge shall be recognized and known as a post-route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to such bridge, and said bridge shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post-routes in the United States; and Congress reserves the right at any time to regulate by appropriate legislation the charges for freight Charges. and passengers over said bridge. Sec. 5. That the United States shall have the right of way for such Postal-telegraph. postal-telegraph lines across said bridge as the Govern ment may construct or control. Sec. 6. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Right to amend, expressly reserved; and the right to require any changes in said struct- °*°·» '°“°"°d· ure, or its entire removal, at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress shall decide that the public interest requires it, is also expressly reserved. Approved, May 17, 1886. CHAP. 357.-An act to authorize the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul, Railway May 17, 1886. Company to construct, operate, and maintain a Bridge across the Missouri River near [1; or in the vicinity of Chamberlain in the Territory of Dakota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represmmztices of the United States of America. in Congress assembled, That the Chicago, Milwaukee Chicago, Miland Saint Paul Railway Company shall have the right to construct and }’“:,1§,°°.f“‘1 %"·m* maintain a Bridge across the Missouri River near or in the vicinity of ,,:ny°;;;%,.,g:§ the city of Chamberlain, in the Territory of Dakota and also to lay on m bridge the Misand over said bridge a railway track or tracks for the passage of rail- Svvri Rive r M way trains; and said corporation may, at its option, construct and Ch"“‘b°’1“‘“·D"k· maintain ways for wagons, carriages, and foot-passengers, charging and W,,,,,,,, and foo, receiving such reasonable tolls therefor as may be approved iroin time imag?, to time by the Secretary of `War. - Tolls- Sec. 2. That said bridge shall be con tructed and built without in- Free navigation terferenee with the security and convenience ofnavigation of said river :3* *° b° °l’**'“°t‘ beyond what is necessary to carry into effect the rights and privileges ' hereby granted; and in order to secure that olject the said corporation Plans, etc., to be shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, ¤1>D¤¤‘¤d bbgvihe a design and drawings of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, S°°’°““Y °f *“" for the space of one mile above and one mile below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the shore·lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the currents at all stages, and the sonudiugs, accurately showing the bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plan and location of the bridge are approved by the Secretary of War the bridge shall not be built: Provided, Proviaoa. That if the said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans, it shall not be of less elevation in any case than fifty feet above Span:. extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of location, to the lowest part of the superstructure of the bridge, nor shall the spans of said bridge be less than three hundred feet in length, and the piers of · said bridge shall be parallel with the current of said river, and the main span shall be over the main channel of tho river and not less than three hundred feet in length: And provided algo, That if any bridge built under this act shall be constructed as a draw-bridge, the same shall be Drewconstructed as a pivot draw-bridge, with a draw over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point, and with spans of not less than one hundred and sixty feet in length in the clear on each side of the central or pivot pier of the draw, and the next adjoining span or spans to the draw shall not be less than three hundred feet, and the