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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 181, 182. 1890. location, the topography of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at high and low water, the direction and strength of the current at all stages, and the soundings, accurately showing the bed and channel of the stream, and shall furnish such other information as shall be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject ; an, until the said location and plans of the bridge hereby authorized to be constructed are approved bv the Secretary of War, the said bridge shall not be built ; and should any change be made in Ch$¤80i¤Pl&!J· the plan of such bridge during the progress of construction thereof, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War; and in case of any litigation arising from the obstruction or alleged uugeueu. obstruction caused by said bridge to the free navigation of said river, _ the cause may be tried before the circuit court of the United States in whose jurisdiction any portion of the bridge is located. Sec. 3. That the bridge authorized to be constructed under this Lhwfulstructureaud act shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known p°S"°""" as a post-route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, troops, and the munitions of war of the United States, or for through railway passengers or Through MUGS. freight passing over said bridge, than the rate per mile for their transmission over the railroads leading to said bridge; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shal be granted to all telegraph cogwg *•·*l¢8¤Ph companies ; and the United States shall have the right of way across Postal telegraph. said bridge and its approaches for postal-telegraph purposes. Sec. 4. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge Usehyorhermlroad shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to °°m°m°S’ °°°' the passage of railway trains or cars over the same, and over the approaches thereto, upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad companies, or any 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 decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties. Sec. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act, when- A¤¤¤¤•h¤¤¤¤- ever Congress shall consider it necessary to the public interest, is. hereby ex ressly reserved; any any alterations or changes that may Mt",w,,,, 0, be required by Congress in the bri ge constructed under this act, or °h°¤8”· the entire removal of said bridge, if required by Congress, shall be made by the corporation ownin or controlling the same at its own expense; and if said bridge shall not be commenced in one year and Corrjmencemennmu be Enished within three years from the passage of this act the rights °°'“p °"°”‘ anddprivileges hereby granted as to such bridge shall be null and VO1. Approved, May 1, 1890. CHAP. 182.--—An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of May 2, 1890. Oklahoma, to enlar e the jurisdiction of the United States Court in the Indian ‘—‘—·;‘" Territory, and for other purposes. ` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the _ United States of America in Congress assembled, Sec. 1. That all h0£$;f*°°” °’ 0*** that portion of the United States now known as the Indian Territory, TErectcd in Indian except so much of the same as is actually occupied by the five civil- °'"°°”'*“°‘ ized tribes, and the Indian tribes within the Quapaw ndian Agency, and except the unoccupied part of the Chero ee outlet, together with that portion of the United States known as the Public Land Stri, is hereby erected into a temporary government by the name Temporary governof the Territor of Oklahoma. The portion of the Indian Territory m°°°‘ included in said? Territory of Oklahoma is bounded by a line drawn as follows ; Oommencing at a point where the ninety-eighth meridian B¤¤¤<1¤·¤¤•· STAT Lr—VOL XX\’I——6