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well put together, resting upon secure bents, and of sufficient height to elevate the stringers, or the timbers supporting the floor, above high water mark.
Sec. 11. That nothing in this act shall prevent any person or corporation, when they shall have obtained a charter for the same, from building a bridge on the Dakota river, where any county or territorial road shall strike said river on their land.
Sec. 12. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.
Approved, January 6, 1864.
CHAPTER LIII. AN ACT INCORPORATING A BRIDGE COMPANY AT VERMILION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. That William Shriner, G. W. Pratt, Samuel Lyon, John Russell, B. W. Collar, Ahira Partridge, P. H. Jewell, A. Carpenter, S. B. Mulholland, John Burgman, A. W. Puett, Hugh Compton, Ole Bottolfson, C. Week, B. Bothun, and E. M. Bond, be and the same are hereby declared to be a body corporate, to be known as the Vermilion Bridge Company.
Sec. 2. Said company is hereby vested with all the powers usually conferred upon like corporations, which are necessary and essential for the well being of said company.
Sec. 8. Said company is, by this act, empowered and authorized to codstruct [sic] and maintain a bridge on the Vermillion river, at a point near the northeast corner of the claim of L. E. Phelps, and are to enjoy the right of maintaining a bridge at said point until such time as the same shall be unfit for use for six months at any one time.
Sec. 4. Said bridge is to be kept open for the free use of
