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 380 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 755, 756. 1888. prescribed conditions of this act, to notify the company that he approves the same; and upon receiving suc notification the sa1d company may proceed to an erection of said bridge, conforming strictly to the approved plan and location, but until such not1iication has been received, the bridge shall not be commenced or built; should C*“’~‘“¤°“· any material change be made in the plan of the bridge or said accessory works, during the progress of the work thereon, such change shall be likewise subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. The Secretary may at any time, when in his judgment necessary, require the company owning or controlling said bridge to change the same in any respect, or to entirely remove the structure, all sucl1 changes or the entire removal to be at the expense of said company, and if refusal shall be made to comply with his requirements the Secretary of War shall cause such changes to be made, or the entire Litigation removal of said bridge, and to cause proceedings to be instituted in the name of the United States in the District court of the United States in whose territorial jurisdiction said bridge or any part thereof is located, for the purpose of recovering from the parties owning said bridge the amount expended in such changes or removal, together with all costs of such litigation. p0P;‘Y£§;;F}'“°“"°““d Sec. 4. That any bridge and accessory works when built and constructed under this act and according to the terms and limitations thereof, shall be a lawful structure, and said bridge shall be recognized and known as a post—route, upon which also no higher char e 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 ighways eading to said bridge; and said bridge shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post-routes in the U_nited States; and Con ress reserves the right at any time to regulate by appropriate legi5ation the charges for freight and passengers over said bridge. Pcs¢¤1wlegr¤ph· Sec. 5. The United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph across said bridge, and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph companies. c0¤¤¤¤{gj¢¤<>¤¤¤¤t Md Sec. 6. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction mp ‘°°' of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date thereof. Amendment Sec. 7, That the right to alter. amend, or repeal this  is expressly reserved. Approved, August 6, 1888. Auzust 6.1**1 CHAP. 'I56.—An act to authorize the construction of bridges across the Flint and ___""""" Chattahoochee Rivers. Be it cnncfed by the Senale and Inmse of Representatives cg the R,;}{@*Q,‘;,m‘g_,§n"‘*},“,‘j§ Unifwl Sfcfes of .~1rnc=rz`ccu in Congreas assembled, That the Ala ama, mynmige Fiintlluyer Midland Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws §§,,%.“,i‘§,,'§‘,§‘§,f;,0,t{,’;g of Georgia and Alabama, and havin authority to build its line of Rim ¤¤ G<>¤1¤¤» M- railroad from a point in the State of Georgia, at or near Bainbridge, to and into the State of Alabama, to a point at or near Montgomery, the capital of said State of Alabama, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain, for the urpose of making a more perfect connection of its said line, the following railroad bridges, to be used by it, its successors or assigns, for railway purposes, over the rivers and at the localities named following, that is to say: across the Flint River near the city of Bainbridge, in the States of Georgia, at the most suitable and convenient point within one mile of said city of Bainbridge, and across the Chattahoochee River, at or near the town of Gordon, in the State of Alabama, at the most suitable and convenient place and within live miles of said town of Gordon.