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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 167. 1891 761 not be less than ten feet above the standard high-water grade line established by the Missouri River Commission in eighteen hundred and eighty-nine and now m force; and the piers of said bridge shall Pl¤¤‘¤·¤*¢- be ppralle with, and the bridge itself at right angles to, the current of e river: Provzded, also, That said draw shall be opened promptly Bmw. by said company, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats opemug or mw. and rafts, and said company or corporation shall maintain at its own expense, from sunset til sunrise, such lights or other signals on said mmm bridge as the Light-House Board shall prescribe: Pmvided fuxrthe*r, That the said Interstate Bridge and Street Railway Company shall, at its own expense, build and maintain, under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of War, such wing dams and booms or wm; damsew. ot er worlzs necessaito maintain the channel within the draw s an of said bridge, and s ll, at their own expense, maintain a depth) of nepui or water at water through said draw span not less than that now existin, as °“"'·" shown by the report of the War Department, at the point where said bridge may be located; and if said Interstate Bridge and Street Railway Company shall fail to maintain such channel as aforesaid, mw '°‘*'*”i¤ then the Secretary of War may cause said channel to be opened and . maintained at proper deipth for navigation through said span at the expense of the owners o said bridgp. mc. 4. That the Secretary of ar is herebfv authorized and di- N¤¤¤<=¤i¤¤ of aprected, upon receiving such plan and other in ormation, and upon ’°""°‘l °f "l“"’°°°‘ being satisfied that a bridge so built will conform to the requirements of this act, to notify the company or corporation authorized to build the same that he approves of the same; and upon receiving such notification, the said company or corporation ma proceed to erect said bridge, conforming strictly to the approved and location, and sho d any change be made in the plan 0 the bridge or accessory works during the progress of the work thereon, such _ glvrange shall be subject likewise to the approval of the Secretary of ar. Sec. 5. That any bridge built under this act and subject to its Lawfulgrructummd limitations shall be a la ul structure, and shall be recognized and °°°°r°“‘“‘ known as a post route, upon which also no higlher 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 aid for the transpprtation over the railroad or public highways leading to the said ridge, and it shall enjoy the rights an privileges of other t 1‘08dS in the United States; and equal privileges in use by exempt, the use of said)l)>Sridge shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone °‘°·°°!”P°'“°”· com 'es; and the United States shall have the right of way across poem megmpn. said bridge and its ap roaches for postal-telegraph purposes. Sec. 6. That all raigoad and street railway companies desiring the use by other yanuse of said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and ""’·°'°··°°“*P“"'°'* privileges relative to the passage of railroad trains or cars over the same and over the approaches thereto, upon payment of a reason- Terms. able compensation for such use- and in case the owner or owners of said brid e and the several railroad or street railway complanies, or any one of them, desiring such use shall fail to agree upon the sum or nmgmmeut. 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 Sevcséerminaci on by be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations my °f W“" and proofs of the parties. Sec. 7. That Congress shall have the power at any time to alter, Amenumeuam. amend, or repeal this act, and the Secretary of War, whenever he shall deem it necessary, may cause the owners of said bridge to re- oem-ucuom wmvmove all material and substantial obstructions to the navigation of ’$“‘°“· said river by the construction of said bridge and its accessory works, or to prevent such obstruction; and the expense of altering said bridge or removing such obstructions shall be paid by the owners of such bridge.