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 162 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 339, 340. 1900. warrant for the amount due upon the Treasurer of the United States, and when the same are so paid no further liabilities shall exist in respect of the same against the governments of the United States or of Hawaii. "S‘§'Pl“,§;,§*”··U*;,,_E,’§ Sec. 103. hat any money of the Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank that gieiws Treasury- shall remain unpaid to the ersons entitled thereto on the first day of July, nineteen hundred andjone, and any assets of said bank shall be turned over by the government of Hawaii to the Treasurer of the United States, and the Secretary of the`Treasury shall cause an account to be stated, as of said date, between such government of Hawaii and the United States in respect to said Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank. Effect- Sec. 104. This Act shall take effect forty-five days from and after the date of the approval thereof, exceipting only as to section fifty-two, AMP-149- relating to appropriations, which sha take effect upon such approval. Approved, April 30, 1900. April 30.1900- CHAP. 340.-—An'Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across Tallahatchie ""*"'"—" River, in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House glfigiresentatioes of the United b§§§§,g States of America in Uongress assemble, That the board of supervis- Filéllahutvhie River. ors of Tallahatchie County, in the State of Mississippi, be, and is ° °' hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge and approaches _ thereto across the Tallahatchie River at or within one mile above or T""‘““·"°u·°“· below Swan Lake, in the State of Mississippi. Said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all . kinds, animals, foot passengers, and or all road travel, for such reasonable rates of toll and under such reasonable rules and regulations als; mgy be presciiilvipd by said board of supervisors and approved by e ecretary of a1·. ,,,§§,.}Q,‘},l,§(‘§g§‘}{,,§§,§f‘°‘ Sec. 2. That any bridge built under this Act and subject to its limitations shall be a lawful structure, and shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which no charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and munitions of war of c0'£fp§é;'f‘Ph· °*°·· the United States; and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies; and the United States shall have the right of way across said bridge and its approaches for postal—telegraph purposes. Dréwnetc- Sec. 3. That the said bridge shall be constructed as a wagon bridge, and shall contain a drawspan giving a clear opening of a width to be determined by the Secretary of War, which rawspan shall be maintained over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point; and said bridge other than the drawspan shall be at right _0Pro¢$al<;s-0f- ang es to the current of the river at high water: Provided, That the p° g ° .said draw shall be opened promptly, upon reasonable signal, for the mgm. passage of boats and rafts; and said board of supervisors shall maintain, at its own ezgpense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other ,ggggg¤¤*i¢>¤¤¤>¤¤V· signals on said bri ge as the Light-House Board shall prescribe. No ` bridgle shall be erected or maintained under the authority of this Act whic shall at any time unreasonably obstruct the free navigation of -c1m¤ges. said river; and if any bridge .ereeted under such authority shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, unreasonably obstruct navigation, e is hereby authorized to cause the entire removal thereof or such changes or alterations of said bridge to be made as will obviate such obstruction; and all such alterations shall be made and all such obstructions shall be removed at the expense of the owner or owners -nugau¤¤. of said bridge; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruc- ` tion or allegedobstruction to the free navigation of said river, caused or alleged to be caused by said bridge, the case may be brought in the district court of the United States of the State of Mississippi, in whose