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 FIFTY-SECON D CON GBESS. Sess. II. Ch. 75, 76. 1893. 439 Sec. 9. That all railroad companies desiring the use of the bridge Ue¤brr¤¤¤>~1¢<>¤¤- authorized by this act shall have and beentitled to equal rights and privi- p°m°°' leges relative to the passage of railway trains or cars over the same and over the approaches thereto, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation. compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of such bridge and the several railroad companies, or any one 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; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge chall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies. Sec. 10. That the bridge constructed, maintained, and operated under Ié=·wf¤:¤ puncture this act and according to its limitations shall be a lawful structure, an °°° mu °‘ and hall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transportation 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 of said mails, troops, and munitions over the railroads and public highways leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph P¤¤¤~lw1¤gmph,»m. and telephone purposes over said bridge. Sec. 11. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction of c°E;··{¤¤;;¤i¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤d the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and P ° °°‘ completed within three years from the date of approval thereof - Sue. 12. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby A¤=¤¤<i¤¤¤¤¢.¤w· expressly reserved; and the right to require the entire removal of the bridge constructed under the provisions of this act, at the expense of the owners thereof, whenever Congress shall decide that the public interests require it, is also expressly reserved. Approved, February 9, 1893. CHAP. 76.-An act for the construction and maintenance of a bridge across the p,,bmm·yg_18g3_ Saint Lawrence River. ———%. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any bridge and its ap- sam L,,,.,,,,,,,,, urtenances which shall be constructed across the Saint Lawrence £g)§"’,j;{dQ;>mSvB¤i:r giver from the American frontier, in Saint Lawrence County, in the iawmm "nam, u. State of New York, to Canada, by the Saint Lawrence Railway Cont "· “”‘* "‘*““""· pany, a corporation incorporated under and pursuant to the provisions of an act of the legislature of the State of New York, known as chapter five hundred and thirty-tive of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, and entitled “An act in relation to railroads, constituting chapter thirty-nine of the general laws," and approved by the governor June ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be lawful structures Lewes; mm.,.., and shall be so held and taken, and are hereby authorized to be con— Md P°¤° '°“‘°· structed and maintained as provided by the aforesaid act, anything in any law or laws of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding; and such bridge shall be, and is hereby, declared to be an established post road for the United States mails; but this act shall not be construed to authorize the construction of any bridge which shall not permit free navigation of said river to substantially the same extent as rms magenta. would be enjoyed under the provisions of the aforesaid act, heretofore enacted and now in force; Provided, nevertheless, That the location of PWM-- Hl1)"bl‘ldg0, the construction of which is hereby authorized, shall be L¤¤¤¤i¤¤· subyect to the approval of the Secretary of V\’ar of the United States: And provided further, that the consent of the proper authorities of the Consent or cmu Dominion of Canada shall have been obtained befbre any bridge hereby authorized shall bezcommenced or built.