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 640 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1251, 1252. 1890. proceed to an erection of said bridge, conforming Strictly to the ap- Change or pm. proved plan and location; and should any change be made in the plan of the bridge or said accessory works during the progress of the work thereon, such change shall be subject likewise to the approval umgmou. of the Secretary of War; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to the free navigation of said river, caused or alleged to be caused by said bridge, the case may be brought in the circuit court of the United States for the district for the State of Missouri, in whose jurisdiction any portion of said obstruction or bridge may be located. All changes in said bri_dge required at any time by the Secretary of War shall be made at the gxptpnse of the persons or corporation owning or controlling said r1 ge. m¥&¤Wf¤{m“£•;*¤¤¤¤ Sec. 4. That the said bridgie and accessory works, when built and pmconstructed under this act an according to the terms and limitations 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 rail-roads or public ighways leading to said bridge; and said bridge shall enjoy the ~ rights and Tplrivilcges of other post-routes in the United States. ‘P¤¤·¤1¤¤1¤zr¤r·¤- Sec. 5. at the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for such postal and telegraph lines as_ the Government may construct or control. —*m°¤d¤¤°¤*»°**=· Sec. 6. That Congress shall have power at any time to alter, amend, or repeal this act, so as to prevent or remove all material and substantial obstructions to the navigation of said river by the Strucruml changes. construction of said bridge and its accessory works; and all alterations of said bridge shall be made and all such obstructions shall be removed at the expense of the owners of or persons controlling such BMO- bridge; Provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so conrzxsszmgiaws. strued as to repeal or modify any of 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. c0§I;>;>*,;g*;*¤¤¤*¤¤ Sec. 7. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction ` of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date hereof. Approved, October 1, 1890. October 1, 1800. CHAP. 1252.-An act giving, upon conditions and limitations therein contained, ""**""w‘ the assent of the United States to certain leases of rights to mine coal in the Choctaw Nation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House c;_fReprese1ztatéces of the gwmtgn. 1 United States of America in Congress assent Zed, That the consent of mm..;;.,,,,,,,,,;., the United States is hereby given, upon the conditions and with the (‘§;';g2_'}’y'*¤d R°“"°}’ limitations hereinafter set forth, and no farther, to the following- ' described leases of coal rights, which citizens of the Choctaw Nation have made to the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, a corporation created by the laws of the State of Minnesota, co ies of which leases, eleven in number, have been tiled and deposited) with the Secretary of the Interior, namely: wm First. A lease bearing date the twentieth day of May, eighteen hundred and eiglhty-nine, between James F. Freeney and John M. Grady. citizens of the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, of the one part, and the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, of the other part. Recorded in the clerk’s office of Gaines County, Choctaw Nation, June third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in record-book numbered Oileapages two hundred and six and two hundred and fourteen, inc usive.