Monument, Monterey, Cal. An act to aid in the completion of a monument at Monterey, Cali- Navy, George R. Plummer. An act to authorize the appointment of Acting Assistant Surgeon Alabama, canceled homestead entries. An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of Immigrant station, New Orleans, La. An act to provide for the establishment of an immigration Porto Rico, naval reservations. An act to readjust the boundaries of the naval reservations in Porto practice of medicine and surgery in the District of Columbia," approved June third, eighteen, Columbus memorial. An act to provide a suitable memorial to the memory of Christopher Columbus. March 4, 1907... Ficarilla Indian Reservation, N. Mex., allotments, etc. An act to quiet title to lands on Jicarilla Phoenix, Ariz., water plant. An act to enable the city of Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona pany of South Dakota to construct a dam across the Missouri River." March 4, 1907..... Sixteen-hour act. An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employees thereon. March 4, 1907... United States courts, district judges. An act to amend section five hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relative to the assignment of district judges to perform the duties of a disabled judge. March 4, 1907.. Navy, Harold D. Childs. An act for the relief of Harold D. Childs. March 4, 1907. RESOLUTIONS. Congressional employees, December salaries. Joint resolution to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and six, on the twentieth day of said month. December 18, 1906.. Bridge, Fort Snelling. Joint resolution relating to the construction of a bridge at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. January 12, 1907.... Page. 1408 1408 1408 1409 1410 1410 1411 1411 1412 1412 1413 1413 1414 1414 1415 1415 1415 1415 1417 1417 1418 1418 District of Columbia, highway bridge. Joint resolution providing for an extension of time for completing the highway bridge and approaches across the Potomac River at Washington, District of Columbia. January 18, 1907 Smithsonian Institution Regents, George Gray. Joint resolution to fill a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. January 21, 1907 .. Obsolete ordnance, South Dakota. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to aurnish two three-inch wrought-iron muzzle-loading cannon, with their carriages, limbers, and accessories, to the State of South Dakota. January 23, 1907 Roe Reisinger. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to award the Congressional medal of honor to Roe Reisinger. January 25, 1907... Panama Canal message. Joint resolution to provide for the printing of sixteen thousand copies of Senate Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session. January 16, 1907... Public lands, leaves of absence. Joint resolution authorizing temporary leaves of absence for homestead settlers. January 18. 1907.. 1418 1419 1419 1419 1420 1420 Page. Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash., entries. Joint resolution extending protection of second proviso of section one of the act of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, to certain entrymen. January 29, 1907.. 1420 Postal Commission, second-class matter. Joint resolution continuing the Postal Commission until 1420 1421 1421 Sturgeon Bay, Illinois. Joint resolution declaring Sturgeon Bay, Illinois, not navigable water. 1421 Obsolete ordnance, Preston, Iowa. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish two Trent River, North Carolina. Joint resolution relating to securing a channel of six feet depth over Director of the Mint, report. Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to print one 1422 1422 1422 1422 1423 1423 1423 1424 1424 1424 1424 1425 1425 Diseases of the Horse, special report. Joint resolution to provide for the printing of two hundred and 1425 1426 Statutes for Department of Justice. Joint resolution authorizing the Attorney-General to print eight hundred and fifty copies of the Session Laws. March 4, 1907.. 1426 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December, 1905, and was adjourned without day on Saturday, the thirtieth day of June, 1906. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President; CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, Vice-President; WILLIAM P. FRYE, President of the Senate pro tempore; JOHN KEAN, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, June fifteenth and sixteenth, 1906; JOSEPH G. CANNON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1.-An Act To authorize the Rock Island, Arkansas and Louisiana Railroad Company to construct bridges across Ouachita River and other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas. December 15, 1905. [S. 410.] [Public, No. 1.] ers, Ark. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Rock Island, Ouachita, etc., rivArkansas and Louisiana Railroad Company, a consolidated corporation created and existing by virtue of the laws of the States of Arkansas and Louisiana, its successors and assigns be, and is hereby, may bridge. authorized to construct and maintain bridges across the Ouachita River and such other navigable rivers in the State of Arkansas as may be necessary for the crossing of said rivers with its railroad line, at such points as may be selected by said railroad company and approved by the Secretary of War. Said bridges shall be constructed to provide Railroad, wagonfor the passage of railroad trains, and, at the option of said railroad and foot bridge. company by which they may be built, may be used for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals and for foot passengers, for such reasonable rates of toll as may be fixed by said railroad company and approved by the Secretary of War. SEC. 2. That the bridges constructed, maintained, and operated under this Act and according to its limitations shall be lawful structures, and shall be recognized and known as post routes, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transportation over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation of said mails, troops, and munitions over the railroads, and public highways leading to said bridges, and the United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph and telephone purposes over said bridges. SEC. 3. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridges shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway trains over the same and over the approaches thereto upon the payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridges and the several railroad companies, or any of them, desiring such use shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid and upon the rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridges, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegation and proofs of the parties. VOL XXXIV, PT 1—1 1 Lawful structure and post route. Telegraph, etc., rights. Use by other roads. Secretary of War to approve plans, etc. Changes. Amendment. Time of construction. SEC. 4. That all bridges authorized to be constructed under this Act shall be built under and subject to such regulations for the security of the navigation of the rivers over which they may be built as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object the said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War for his examination and approval designs and drawings of the bridges and maps of locations selected; and until the said plans and locations are approved by the Secretary of War the bridges shall not be commenced or built; and should any changes be made in the plans of said bridges, or any of them, during the progress of construction, such changes shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, and all changes in said bridges, or any of them, required by the Secretary of War at any time, or their entire removal, shall be at the expense of the corporations or persons owning or operating said bridges. SEC. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. SEC. 6. That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridges herein authorized is not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date thereof. Approved, December 15, 1905. December 21, 1905, [H. R. 299.] [Public, No, 2.J Columbia River. may bridge, at Vancouver, Wash. CHAP. 2.—An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Columbia River by the Portland and Seattle Railway Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Portland and Seattle tle Railway Company Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Washington, its successors and assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River at a place suitable to commerce and not interfering with navigation, at a point at or near Vancouver, in the State of Washington, and to lay on or over said bridge a track or tracks for the more perfect connection of any railroad or railroads that are or shall be constructed to said river, on either or both sides thereof at or opposite said point, under the limitaUnobstructed navi- tions and conditions hereinafter provided; that said bridge shall not interfere with the free navigation of said river, and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to the free navigation of said river by reason of the construction of said bridge, the cause may be tried before the circuit court of the United States in and for any district in whose jurisdiction any portion of said obstrucRailroad, wagon, tion or bridge may be. Said bridge shall be constructed to provide gation. Litigation. and foot bridge. Drawbridge. Provisos. for the passage of railroad trains, and, at the option of the said company or corporation, its successors and assigns, for the safe and convenient passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, animals, and foot passengers for such reasonable rates of toll as may be fixed from time to time by the Secretary of War SEC. 2. That said bridge shall be provided with two or more draw openings, each having not less than two hundred feet clear channel way, and in addition to said draw openings one or more fixed channel spans, each having not less than three hundred and fifty feet clear channel way; and every part of the superstructure of said bridge shall give a clear headroom of not less than six feet above extreme known highwater mark: Provided, That all spans shall be so located as to afford the greatest possible accommodation to the river traffic, and a draw opening shall, if practicable, be located next or near shore: Provided Length of spans, etc. also, That if the physical characteristics of the locality so require, and the interests of navigation be not injured thereby, the lengths of the fixed spans or the number of draw openings may be reduced: Provided also, That for any two adjacent draw openings of two hundred feet each Location of spans. Substitution of draws. one draw opening of three hundred feet may be substituted if, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, the interests of navigation be not injured thereby. SEC. 3. That all draw spans authorized by this Act shall be operated Opening draw. by steam or other reliable mechanical power, and shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats, except when trains are passing over said span or spans; but in no case shall unnecessary delay occur in opening said draw after the passage of trains, and also that in case the opening of a draw is delayed by reason of the passing of a train after the signal has been given from a boat ready to pass through, the draw shall be opened for the passage of such boat before another train is allowed to pass over the said span or spans; nor shall there be any unnecessary delay in the passage of trains over the bridge. Construction of piers, etc. SEC. 4. That all piers shall be built parallel with the current of the river at that stage of water which is most important for navigation, and the bridge itself shall be built as nearly as may be at right angles thereto; and that riprapping or other protection for imperfect foundations which will lessen the required waterway shall not be permitted; and also that piers which will produce cross currents or bars dangerous to navigation shall not be constructed; and if, after construction, any piers or accessory works are found to produce the abovementioned effects, or if any riprapping or other protection prohibited by this section is found to exist, the nuisance shall be abated or corrected under the direction of the Secretary of War, at the expense of the company or persons owning, controlling, or operating said bridge. SEC. 5. That the approaches to said bridge shall be so designed and Approaches. constructed as not to interfere with the free discharge of said river in seasons of flood; and any encroachment on the high-water cross section by piers, solid embankments, or otherwise, which will result in unduly accelerating the high-water current at the site of the bridge shall not be allowed. SEC. 6. That any corporation, company, or persons owning, controlling, or operating the bridge built under the authority of this Act shall build and maintain at all times, as accessory works to such bridge, such booms, piers, dikes, guard fences, and similar devices as may be necessary to insure at all times a permanent channel for a sufficient distance above and below the bridge site and for the guiding of rafts, steamboats, and other water craft safely under or through said bridge; and if at any time after the.construction of the bridge and its accessory works the approaches to draw openings, channel spans, or raft passages in said bridge are found to be dangerous or difficult of access by any important class of river traffic, the Secretary of War may, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, order the corporation, company, or persons owning, controlling, or operating said bridge to construct, under his directions, and to maintain such additional sheer booms, dikes, and other devices as will obviate the difficulty mentioned, which additional sheer booms, dikes, and other devices shall be built and maintained at their own expense by said company or persons; and that said company or persons shall maintain, at their own expense, from sunset to sunrise throughout the season of navigation such lights and other signals on said bridge as may be required by the Light-House Board for the security of navigation. SEC. 7. That the bridge authorized to be constructed by this Act shall be located and built under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation on said river as the Secretary of War shall prescribe; and to secure that object said corporation shall submit for his examination a design and drawings of the bridge, piers, approaches, and accessory works, and a map of the location, giving for a space of at least three miles above and one mile below the proposed location the topography of the banks of the river and the shore lines at high and Aids to navigation. Lights, etc. Secretary of War to approve plans, etc. |