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FORTY SEVENTH CONGRESS. Suse. I. C11. 283, 284. 1882. 157 und alterations made, at the expense of the owner or owners of said bridge. Promdcd, That nothing in this act shall be so construed, as to Pr<Mwrepeal or modify any df the provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge _ crccted under this not from the operation of the same. Sm. 7. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge Use or by mush all have, and be entitled to equal rights und privileges relative to *°°·d°· the passage of railway trains or cars over the same, and over the uppronches thereto, upon payment of a. reasonable compensation for such use; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad companies, or any one of them, desiring such use shall fail to Tolls. agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the. Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties. Sec. 8. hot any bridge authorized to be constructed under this act shall be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of said river, as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, nnd to secure that object, said company or corporation shall submit to the Secretary of War, a design and drawings of said bridge to Ap prov gi or be erected, for his examination and approval, and a map of its location, plans, and locaaud shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full **°¤·‘ and satisfactory understanding of the subject, and in all things shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and until said plan and location of said bridge or brhlfes are approved by the Secretary of War, said bridge or bridges chai not bebnilv and should any change be made in the plan of any bridge authorized to be constructed by this act during the progress of the work of construction, such change shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War. - S20. 9. That the right to alter, amend or repeal this act is hereby Rightfosltor. expressly reserved, and the right to require any changes in said structures or their entire removal at the expense of the owners thereof when- · ever Congress shall decide that the public imxestmequires it,:i• aboutpreasly reserved. i — · A ~ . Appmoved, July 8, 1882. · _ , CHAP. lll.-~An to accept mtlfyan agreement withthe Crow Indians for Ju 10 1%. . Jhosaleof aportiotnof their menfrvadmiindu Tenitory otllontsnamquiredfor —-l-y—L——— the use of the Northern Pacino Railroad, md to make the uccesnry appropriations for carrying out the same. p Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of dnnerim in Congress assembled, That a certain agreement made Aqccptsnpc and between the United States of Amerie?-represented by Llewellyn A. ****:1: '?':':t‘{ Luce, William H. Walker, and Charles Maxwell, special agents duly fg': h':,,", fo, appointed in that behalf by the Secretary of the Interior, of the one ,.,1., of pmam. sg part, and the Grow tribe of Indians resident on the Crow Reservation, reservation rn in the Tenitoryof Montana, acting under the supervision and with the #3:;%%,:,; 2*; approval of the Secretary of the Interior of the other part, be, and the um of 1.;,,,,],,,,,, same is hereby, ratified and eontirmed. agreement is executed by Paeillo R•in¤•d. an majority of all the adult male Indians of the Crow tribe occupying or interested in the lands therein more particularly described, in conformity with the provisions contained in article eleven of the treaty with the Crow Indians of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and 15 State W- is in the words following, namely: _ •* Whereas by section one of an set of Congress approved July Plumble. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled ‘An set grsn to and 13 Stat., 366- in the construction of o railroad and telegraph hue bum e Qnperier to Puget8cm1d, on the Pacino eoesqby thenuthem ronte’(thn·teenth