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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 21, 22. 1889. 64] as a post·ronte, and it shall enjoy the rights and privileges of other post-roads in the United States, and equal privileges in the use of sa1d bridges shall be granted to all telegraph companies; and the United States shall have the right of way over said bridges for postal- Postal wiegmpn. telegraph purposes. Sec. 3. hat all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridges Use byvther wadsshall have and be entitled to equal rights and rivileges relative to the passage of railway trains over the same, and over the approaches thereto, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said brid es and the several railroad comlpanies, or any of them, desiring sucdu use, shall fail to Compensation. agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to_which each shall conform in using said bridges, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties. Sec. 4. That any bridges authorized to be constructed under this Swmmw <>f Warm act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations °pPr°v° pms’ m` for the security of navigation of said rivers as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; 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 drawings of the bridges, 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 rivers, 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 location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information afs may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plian and location of the bridges are approved ·b1y the Secretary of ar the bridges shall not be commenced or bui t, and should any change be made in the plan of said bridges during the progress of construction such changes shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. Sec. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. · EC. 6. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction ¤<>r¤{¤jr>¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤d of the bridges herein authorized be not commenced within two years °°m° ° `°°' and completed within three years from the date thereof. Approved, January 8, 1889. CHAP. 22.-An act to construct a road from Florence; South Carolina, to the January8, 1889. national cemetery adjacent thereto ‘“°‘_"""“"` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of Apriroprpriori for fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is §€Z§y_‘i§K-Q{{§ §°El“ hereby a propriated, to be used in the construction of a macadam or gravel) road leading from the town of Florence, South Carolina, to the national cemetery in the vicinity of said town. the same to be Gxpended under the direction of the Secretary of War: Provzded, §‘g<£S$·b€ ke t in That no part of the money so appropriated shall be expended until mp,,;,-_ P the town of Florence shall, by "proper ordinances, grant to the United States the right, without ex ense, to grade and macadamize the streets along the route selected fdr the construction or_ repair of said road, and also provide in said ordinance that when said road is constructed that said town will keep the same in repair within the incorporated limits of said town: And provided further, That no part of said money shall be expended until the county of Darlington Shall, by proper orders duly entered of record in the proper court, _ _ Widen the county road, if any, along the route selected, so as that it W¤d¤¤¤¤s mi STAT L-VOL XXV--41