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 512 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Gus. 184. 1893. bridge hereby authorized shall be constructed to provide for the passms:.-eu, wagon, sage of street cars, wagons, and vehicles, and for the transit of animals ‘“‘i *”‘“°“"°' b" g"‘ and foot passengers, for such reasonable rates of toll as may be prescribed by said company and approved by the Secretary of War. Lwfvi ¤tr¤•=¢¤r¤ Sec. 2. That any bridge built under this act shall be a lawful strucmd P°°° mum ture, over which and its approaches may he transmitted the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States tree of charge; Y<·¤¤¤l ¤·l¤g¤·i>¤· and the United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph purposes across said bridge; and said bridge shall enjoy the privileges of other post roads in the United States, and equal privileges in the Vw by telegraph. use of said bridge shall he granted to all telegraph and telephone °"j;;,,°,§’;':,{’°"‘°“‘ companies: Provided, That all street railway companies desiring the gg? by other s•¤¤•¤¢ use of said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and "` °y °°m°°m°°‘ privileges relative to the passage of street-railway cars over the same and over the approaches to the same upon the payment of a reasonable T°””**· compensation for such use, and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several street-railway companies, or any one of them, desiring such use shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon the 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. Construction- Sec. 3. That said bridge shall be made of unbroken and continuous amngip 3.,5 spans of the same length as those of the Saint Louis Merchant’s `Bridge, built under the act approved February third, eighteen hundred _ and eighty-seven, with the same clear height above the water, and P‘°“‘· resting upon piers placed in the same lines as those of the said Merchants? Bridge as now built. gagggmmcm ¤=*i· Sec. 4. That riprappin g or other protection for imperfect foundations ` which will materially lessen the waterway shall not be employed in the channel ways of the high spans, and piers which will produce cross currents or bars dangerous to navigation shall not be constructed; and it, after construction, any piers or protection walls are found to produce the abovementioned effects the nuisance shall be abated or corrected by the owners of said bridge. ‘ “""°°“"*g°"‘°°· Sec. 5. That in case the approaches to the channel span in said bridge, be found dangerous or diiiicult of access by any important class of river traflic, the Secretary of War..shall order the construction of such sheer booms, guide piers, or other similar devices as will obviate the ditheulty, which sheer boom, guide pier, or other devise shall be _ paid for by the person owning or operating said bridge. I"€°°“• “°‘ Sec. 6. That the persons owing, controlling, or operating the bridge authorized by this act shall maintain, at their own expense, from sunset to sunrise, throughout the year and during heavy fogs, such lights or other signals as the Light—House Board shall prescribe, and shall, during the season of navigation, have posted in a conspicuous place on or near the bridge the clear head room under the channel span on that day, the figure expressing this height to be not less than two feet high, and to be readily visible from any point in the channel of the river for a stretch of three thousand it-et above the bridge and one _ _ thousand feet below the bridge. F"’° ““"g"“°”‘ SEP. 7. That no bridge shall be erected or maintained under authority of this act which shall at any time substantially or materially obstruct the free navigation of said river, and if any bridge erected under such authority shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, obstruct S*”'“`*“"** °h¤¤Z°°· such navigation, he is hereby authorized to cause such change or alteration of such bridge to be made as will elfectually obviate such obstruction; and all such alterations shall be made and all such obstructions be removed at the expense of the persons owning or controlling said Lirigazicn. bridge; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction 0;- alleged ohstruction to the free navigation of said river, caused or alleged to be caused by said bridge, the case may he brought in the