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 644 _ FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1253, 1254. 1890. ¤¤¢¤¤¤¤- litigation arising from any obstruction or allelged obstruction to the free navigation of said river, caused or allege to be caused b said bridge, the cause may be brought in the circuit courts of the [lnited States in the States of Missouri or Kansas in whose djurisdiction any portion of said obstruction or bridge may be locate : Provided {wrther, That nothing in this act shall be construed as to repea or Erwin: laws- 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. ,,3f_°***“Y °* ******8** Sec. 4. That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations ,  *° for the security of navigation of said river as the Secretary of War pp p. . . " shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said persons or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawings 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 topogra hy of the banks of the river, the shore- `nes at high and low water, the direction and strength of the currents at all stages, and the soimdings, accurately showing the ` bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be re uired for a full _ and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said ‘ Wn and location of the bridge are aépproved by the Secretary of ¤h•¤z¤¤¢v1¤¤.¤¤¤- ar the bridtge shall not be built; an should any change be made in the plan o said bridge during the profgress of construction, such . change shall besubject to the approval o the Secretary of War. pgzbv ****3 <=¤¤- Sec. 5. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge ’ shall have and be entitled to equal rights an privileges re1ative to -; the passage of railway trains or cars over the same,_ and over the Gvmpeumum. 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 one of them, desiring such use me¤t¤tobc shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules ,;_w,,_ Y S°°'°°“" and conditions to which each shall conform in using said brid e, the Secretary of War shall lix the same upon a hearing of the ahegations and proofs of the parties. S121c. 6. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby V m. expressly reserved, and the right to require any changes in said structure, or its entire removal, at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress shall decide that the public interest requires it, · is also expressly reserved. °**¤·* 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. 1254.-An act relative to the Rancho Punta de la Laguna. P’“·‘*“’I° Whereas it is alle ed that five thousand and ninety-nine and ninety- three one-hundredths acres of land embraced in the Rancho Punta e la Laguna, in the counties of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo, State of California, granted and confirmed to Luis Arellanes and Emidio Miguel Ortega, have been appropriated to the use and disposed of by the United States, and that the said confirmees, claimants, and owners have been deprived of the use of the same: Therefore, Be at enacted by the Senate and House of Represematives of the L,,}gf‘¤‘f°CSP‘“ *1**** Umfed Sfales of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary mégxwryortmwgor of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to care- ,,; 1,,,,d£“‘f,§f “,_.}'§.,,§`*; fully investigate the said allegation in the preamble of this act men- ¤¤¤*v ¢¤=p<>¤¢<1 ¤f- honed, and 1f he shall find that said allegation is true he is hereby