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 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 547-550. 1904. 83 Reach and Linn Railroad Company’s right of way to the northeasterly side of W1nt rop street; thence northwesterly along the northeasterly side of Winthrop\ street to the int of beginmng," the said land bein so conveyed to the town of Wiii,tbrop in exchange for the land and easements comprised in Elm avenue, in said town of Winthrop, which was conveyed to the United States in eighteen hundred and ninety-one and eighteen hundred and ninety-two as a site for the construction of fortifications. ` Approved, March 15, 1904. · UHAP. 548.-An Act To authorize the construction of bridges across a portion of much 15. 1904· the Minnesota River in the State of Minnesota. [H· R- 8160-] · Public, No. 53. Be it enacted by tbc Senate and House of Representatz}ves of the Hzited [ ] States ofAme0·z°ca in Congress assembled, That permanent, stationary, Minnesota mm, fixed span bridges may be constructed and maintained over and across M§}}§;,d gpm, budge, so much of the Minnesota River, within the State of Minnesota, as m¤Yl>°¤¤¤1*¤<=¤>¤- lies between Big Stone Lake, in said State, and the lace on said river meauon. between the counties of Lesueur and Sibley, in said State, where the same is intersected and crossed by the north line of section numbered twenty-five, in township numbered one hundred and twelve north, of range numbered twenty-six west of the fifth principal meridian: Pro-  E n no E vided, That suchbridges shall each have a span not less than forty mu¤e1¤:1ii¤inui feet wide over the main current of the stream, which n shall not be less than twenty feet high in the clear above ordinarysldw-water stage if constructed at or below the city of Mankato, and not less than fifteen feet high in the clear above ordinary low-water stage if constructed above said city of Mankato. Any drawbridge now constructed across said river at or above the vc%”m’{,)°gx:•& city of Lesueur, in said State, and maintained by any municipal or bridge. other corporation, may be converted into a fixed span bridge, in con- ‘ formity with the foregoing provisions. Sec. 2. That said bridges and accessory works, when built and con- mIé¤];g;;¤;0lj{;f:¤*¤*¤ structed under this Act and according to the terms and limitations ` thereof, shall be lawful structures, and said bridges shall be recognized and known as post routes, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate . per mile id for the transportation over the railroads or public higlhwa s leadihg to such bridges; and said bridges shall enjoy the rig ts andr privileges of other post routes of the United States; and Congress reserves the right at any time to regulate by appropriate legislation the charges over said brid es. · Sec. 3. That the Unitecg States shall have the riglht of way for such ,.,,§,‘§§_°g’“"‘· °°°*· postal telegraph and telephone lines across said bri ges as the Government may construct or control. Sec. 4. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal Am°¤d¤¤€¤*· this Act at any time. Approved, March 15, 190-L. CHAP. 550.-An Act Creating an additional land office in the State of North Msigiagé Dakota` ‘ _ _ [rests.   sr.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Regwesentatwes of the United Nm,] mmm_ Stateaof America in Oon ees assembled, That all that portion of North pmmiqghglnum Dakota lying south of tb; twelfth standard parallel and west of the °"°° "°" ‘ range line between ranges ninety and ninety-one west of the principal