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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 575, 57,6. 1898. 717 own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals on said bridge as the Light—House Board shall prescribe. equal rights and privileges in the construction and operation of their g P P ` lines across said bridge; and if actual construction of the bridge herein ¤¤m¤·e·¤·=¤m¤¤¢ and authorized shall not be commenced on or before the iirst day of Sep- °°"“'1°°‘°”' tember, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and be completed by the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the rights and privileges hereby granted shall cease and be determined. shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the —w h¤v¤¤q¤¤1right¤ passage of railway trains over the same and over the approaches t" “’°‘ thereto upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and —¤i¤¤¤g·;)¤=g;¤* with in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad °w°°r° " g°' 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 coniorm 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. selves in the construction, maintenance, and operation of said bridge a¤g,e•¤.,m¤ge. the Illinois Central Railroad Company, or any other railway company duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Mississippi." Approved, July 7, 1898. CHAP. 576.-An Act To protect the harbor defenses and fortiications constructed ·T¤b' 7· B9'- or used by the United States hom malicious injury, and for other purposes. Q"'"`;` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who shall` grgmwgtionofhnm willfully, wantonly, or maliciously trespass upon, injure, or destroy any stream and rm-imc.- of the works or property or material of any submarine mine or torpedo, *“°“· or fortification or harbor-defense system owned or constructed or in process of construction by the United States, or shall willfully or maliciously interfere with the operation or use of any such submarine mine, torpedo, fortification, or harbor-detense system, or shall knowingly, willfully or wantonly violate any regulation of the War Department that has been made for the protection of such mine, torpedo, fortitication or harbor-defense system shall be punished, on conviction ;»•¤¤1¤s M ¤¤.i¤ry thereof in a district court of the United States for the district in which °‘ the offense is committed, by a ilne of not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding live years, or with both, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 2. That when any offense is committed in any place, jurisdiction i or¥¤¤¤e¤ coanmgm over which has been retained by the United States or ceded to it by a §},,m‘§§d§,‘{,,§’,f_ "d‘ State, or which has been purchased with the consent of a State for the erection of a fort, magazine, arsenal, dockyard, or other needful building or structure, the punishment for which offense is not provided for —¤··¤l%¤ up pggrvg by any law of the United States, the person committing such offense }§.'LY‘ °‘1 " " shall, upon conviction in a circuit or district court of the United States ;g¤i¤¢<}\§l§_s=·s$¤;g;·¤r¤¤ for the district in which the offense was committed, be liable to and ° "°" °"' receive the same punishment as the laws of the State in which such —pe¤¤ny.·=¤¤- place is situated now provide for the like offense when committed within the jurisdiction of such State, and the said courts are hereby vested with jurisdiction for such purpose; and no subsequent repeal of any such State law shall affect any such prosecution. Approved, July 7, 1898.
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 * SEo. 7. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge R¤i1r¤¤•i¤·
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