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 802 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 467, -.4.68. 1901. treaty of September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, with the tribe of Indians known as the Chippewas of Lake Superior, whereby certain tB1‘1‘ltO1‘y was ceded to the United States, and granting to each head-of a family of such tribe, in fee simple, a reservation of eighty acres of land, to be selected in the territory ceded b said treaty, situate within the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and l\d'innesota, and extending like benefits and privileges to the mixed bloods belonging to or connected with such tribe, who should permanently reside upon the ceded lands), made February ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, respectively, upon the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter and the northeast qlparter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-three, and upon the south half of the southeast quarter of said -section twenty-three, in township one north, of range one west, in the Salt Lake City land district, in the Territory (now State) of Utah, and the patents issued by the land department January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, in the names of said scrippees, respectively, for the lands embraced by said scri locations, be, and the same are hereby, ratified and confirmed, and t}l)e title to said lands is hereby connrmed, in said patentees and their transferrees, immediate or remote, to the same extent as though said patents had been in all respects valid when issued. Approved, February 23, 1901. February 23. 1901- CHAP. 468.-An Act To authorize the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com- """"*"'_`_ pany to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River at Geneva, Alabama. . ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and Hm¢se;2>/'Rep¢·esen¢atéoes of the United _I»¤ui¤vi}§;r_;¤N¤S¤- Siates of America in Congress assemble -, That the Louisvi le and Nash- ¥·llig€R°l;n0em¤1$ii°$$i ville Railroad Company, a corporation created and existing under the fg? R*'°'“‘G°“°""· laws of the State of Kentucky, and doing business in the State of Ala- ` bama, its successors and assigns, be, and it is hereby, authorized and empowered to construct, maintain, and operate a ridge across the Choctawhatchee River at Geneva, Alabama, at such point as may have been or may hereafter be selected by said railroad company for crossing said river on its line of railroad, Qpvovided such point selected shall, in the judgment of the Secretary of lar, be suitable to the interests Railroad mage. of nav1 tion; that said bridge shall be constructed for the passage of · railroadltrains, and said railroad company may locate; construiét, maintain, and operate over said bridge and the approaches thereto railroad tracks for the use of said railroad com ny. `f H} Lawrul structure Sec. 2. That said bridge shall be a lhawful structure, `sutiject to the md pm ’°l“°' limitations of this Act, and shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troo s, .and munitions of, war of the United States than the rate per mge to be aid for the same over' resmn telegraph. the railroad leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have °“’· the right of way over said bridge for postal telegraph and telephone urposes. _ a S¢l90=g;¤;>‘mg§ W¤'>° P Sec. 3. That the bridgle authorized to be constructed under this Act ppshall be built and locate subject to such regulations for the security of the navigation of said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, · and to secure that object the said railroad company shall submit to the ' Secretary of War, for. his examination and approval, a desi and drawing of said bridge, with a map of the location thereof, anglnshall furnish such other information as may be requiredfor the full and satisfactor understanding of the subject, and that said bridge shall not be built until the plans and location thereof shall be a proved by °h¤¤g°& the Seeretar of War; and should any change be made in dhe plans of said bridge during the progress of its construction, or after its com-