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 FOBTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 385, 386. 1887. 567 upon reasonable signal for the passing of boats; and said company or Opening draw. corporation shall maintain, at its own expense, from sunset till sunrise, such lights or other signals on said bridge as the Light;-House Board Lights, shall prescribe. No bridge shall be erected or maintained under the authority of this act which shall at any time substantially or materially obstruct the free xiavigatiou of said river; and if any bridge erected under such authority shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, ob- Not to obstruct struct such navigation, he is hereby authorized to cause spch change 01- “’“'*8'·***°¤- alteration of said bridge to be made as will eifectually obviate such obstruction; ami all such alterations shall be made and all such obstructions be removed at the expense of the owner or owners of said bridge; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or Litigation. alleged obstruction to the tree navigation of said river caused or alleged to be caused by said bridge, the cause may be brought in the district court of the United States of the State of Alabama in which any portion of said obstruction or bridge may be located: Provided further, That E¤i¤*i¤z NW! nothing in this act shall be so construed as to repeal or modify any of “°° “E°”°°°' the provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operation of the same. ~ Sec. 4. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge 0*h°¤‘¤°¤¤P¤¤i°• shall have and he entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the ""'Y “°‘ passage of railway trains over the same and over the approaches thereto, upon payment of a reasonable compensation ior such use; and in case Compensation. the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad companies, or any one of them, desiring such use, shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall ° conform in using said bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be Secretary orwu decided by the Secretary of War, upon a hearing of the allegations and to decide disagreeproofs of the parties. “‘°““· 81:0. 5. That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this act Secretary ofWar shall be built aud located under and subject to such regulations for the *2 •PP’°'° P'°"·_ security of navigation of said river as the. Secretary of War shall pre- ° °° scribe; and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawing of the bridge, and a map of the location, giving, 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 soundings, accurately showing the bed of the stream, the lucation of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other intermatiou 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; und houid any change be made in the plan of said bridge during the progress of consnuctiou, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. ` Sm:. 6. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 3, 1887. " CHAP. 386.—~Au act to authorize the Geoigiu Pacific Railroad Company to con; Mar. 3, 1887. struct bridges across the Suuilower, Yazoo, an Tombigbee Rivers, in Mississippi. —·—-—-—·*· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of·Represcntatiz·cs of the United States ofrimcrica in Congress assembled, That the Georgia Pacific Rail- G•=<>rsi¤ P¤·=i’¤i¤ road Company, a corporation created and existing under and by virtue E:’{'§:‘§_$:’§g“Q§ .0f the laws of the States of Alabama and Mississippi, be, and is hereby, bridgg S,,,m,,we,’ authorized to build bridges across the Suptiower River, the Yazoo Yum, and Tom. River, and the Tombigbee River, in the State of Mississippi, at such ¥fia;P¢¤3iY¤¤iMi¤- points as may hereafter be selected by said railway company for crossing ""’PP‘·