616 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 302. 1873. _lQarch 3, 1873. CHAP. CCCII.—An Act authorizing the Construction of a Bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis in the State M M issouré. Be tt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Saint Clair and States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Saint Clair and Caroug’;;'é’":°g$m H delet Bridge Company, a corporation chartered and organized undoimayionstruggay the laws of each of the States of Illinois and Missouri, and such other bridge nc-mss the corporations and individuals, if any, as may hereafter associate themselves
with them, be, and the same are hereby, authorized to erect, maintain,
i and operate a bridge across the Mississippi river, from some point on the Illinois shore, in the county of Saint Clair, and the State of Illinois, to the southern Part of the city of Saint Louis, (formerly Carondelet,) in the State of Missouri, subject to all the conditions contained in said acts of incorporation or amendments thereto, and not inconsistent with the terms yr ;;ngm,,,,_ and provisions contained in this act; and in case of any litigation arising ¤¤¤S¤t¤ betried from obstruction, or alleged obstruction, to the free navigation of said "h°'°' waters, the cause shall be tried before the district court of the United States of either State which any portion of said obstructions or bridge touches. Bridge how to Sec. 2. That the bridge authorized by the preceding section to be built b°l’“ll*· shall be subject to the following conditions: First, the two spans over the main channel of the river shall not be less than five hundred feet in the spans. clear from pier to pier at low-water mark; secondly, no span over the water at low-water mark shall be less than two hundred and fifty feet Elevation. in the clear of abutments; thirdly, the elevation of said bridge over the main channel shall not be less than one hundred feet above low-water mark, as understood at the point of location, measuring for such elevation to the lowest part of the superstructure or the bottom chord of said bridge, or in the case of arch spans to the lowest point of the centre of the arch; Piers. fourthly, the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of the No ripraps. river as near as practicable; and that no riprnps or other outside protection for imperfect foundation will be permitted in the channel-way ; that Railway and said bridge shall be provided with two railway-tracks, two highway-tracks, °*l‘°' ““°kS· and two foot-walks of not less than eight feet in width. Bridge com- Sec. 3. That said bridge company, authorized to construct said bridge gzgctgnrsgligll across the ·Mississippi river by the States of Missouri and Illinois, upon papers; whose territory said bridge will abut, shall give notice by·pnblit-ation for thirty days, in newspapers having a wide circulation, in not less than two newspapers in the cities of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Saint Louis, lldemphis, and New Orleans, and shall submit to the Secretary of W`ar, to submit plan for his examination, a design of the bridge and piers, and a map of the
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` below the proposed location, the topography of the banks of the river, the shore-lines at high and low water, the direction of the current at all stages, and the soundings accurately showing the bed of the stream, the location of any other bridge or bridges, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject by the Secretary of \Var; and if the Secretary of War is satisfied _Building or that the provisions of the law have been complied with in regard to loca- £&';;“§Y tion, the building of the piers may be at once commenced; but if it shall ' appear that the conditions prescribed by this act cannot be complied with at the location where it is desired to construct the bridge, the Secretary of War shall, after considering any remonstrances filed against the building of said bridge, and furnishing copies of such remonstrances to the Board of engr board of engineers provided for in this act, detail a board, composed of ',f5:,j“‘“Y l’° °' three experienced officers of the corps of engineers, to examine the case, and may, on their recommendation, authorize such modifications in the requirements of this act as to location and piers- as will permit the construction of the bridge, not, however, diminishing the width of the spans Navigation not contemplated by this act: Provided, That the free navigation of the river
- ° be °l’$"“°*°d· be not materially injured thereby.
