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 65 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 546, 547. 1898. -¤·¢•=.1>-4**6- said fees shall have been rendered and iinally acted upon according to the provisions of the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (chapter one hundred and seventy-four, Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-two), unless the proper accounting officer of the Treasury fails to finally act thereon within six months after the account is received in said office. Approved, July 1, 1898. July 1_mg_ CHAP. 54'l.—An Act To authorize the White and Black River Valley Railway ————-j Company to build a bridge across the Black River in Arkansas. . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United White ud Black States of America in Congress assembled, That the White and Black RMI ‘,;¤!},°Y ****},1;*;*}; River Valley Railway Company, a corporation created and existing `Rli‘vKar,A;·|hg:ns L under the laws of the State of Arkansas, be, and is hereby, authorized _lm,,_m to erect and maintain a bridge across the Black River, in township ` twelve north, range three west, or at such point near said township as shall be selected by said railway company for crossing said river with qnawspm. their railway line, the said bridge to have a drawspan o as not to interrmas. fere with the navigation of said river: Provided, That any bridge connawnu structure structed under this Act and according to its limitations shall be a lawful mi Pm ¤°¤*•- structure and shall be known and recognized as a post route; and the same i hereby declared to be a post route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transportation over the same of the mails, the troops, and munitions of war of the United States or for through passengers or freight passing over said bridge than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads leading to the said Telegraph,ete.,com- bridge; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted P““‘°“· to all telegraph and telephone companies; and the United States shall . have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for postaltelegraph purposes. secretary erwsrm SEc. 2. That the plan and location of said bridge, with a detailed “”’°'°*"““°‘ map of the river at the proposed site of the bridge and near thereto, exhibiting the depths and currents, shall be submitted to the Secretary of Wai· for his approval, and until he approves the plans and location of said bridge 1t shall not be built: but upon the approval of said plan by the Secretary of \Var the said company or corporation may proceed to the erection of said bridge in conformity with said approved plan, -.-ranges. and should any change be made in the plan of said bridge during the progress of the work thereon, such change shall he suhiect likewise to Liichts. the approval of the Secretary of \Vn.r. And there shall be displayed on said bridge trom sunset to sunrise such lights or other signals as may be prescribed by the Light-House Board. . .im.-mimm. Sec. 3. That Congress reserves the right to alter. amend, or repeal Free ¤t.·a,ms¤¤. this Act at any time; and if at any time navigation of said river shall in any manner be obstructed or impaired by the said bridge the Secretary of War shall have authority, and it shall be his duty, to require the said railway company to alter and change the said bridge, at its own expense, and in such manner as may be proper to secure tree and complete navigation without impediment; audit' upon reasonable notice to the said railway company to make such changes or improvements the said company tails to do so all the rights conferred by this Act shall be forfeited. lkanlrnsqls. Sec. 4. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge ,j§j‘“°1 "gm "' "“‘ shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railroad trains or cars over the same, and over the approaches to the same, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation for such -.1..l;,-.·.m.n.r wm. use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several °‘"’" °' ”""g“‘ railroad 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