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FII·`TY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Ssss. Il. Ons. 1408, 1409. 1904. 239 the proper location of said bridge, and shall furnish such other information as may be required for a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject; and until the said plans and location are approved by the Secretary of War the bridge shallnot be commenced or built; and should Ch““g°°· any change be made in the lplan of said bridge during the rogress of construction or after comp etion, such changes shall be subject to the apgboval of the Secretary of War, and any changes which the Secretary of ar may require at any time in the said structure shall be promptly made by the said company at its own ezipense. Sec. 3. That all railroad companies esiring the use of the bridge “'° "Y°“‘°*"°°"°- authorized by this Act shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges re ative to the passage of railway trains or cars over the ` same, and over the approaches thereto, upon the payment of a reasonable compensation for such use; andin case the owner or owners of the said bridge 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 bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and roofs of the parties; and equal rivileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph and) telephone companies. Sec. 4. That on any bridge constructed under the provisions of this USMS- ¤*¤- Act there shall be maintained, at the expense of the company or corporation owniug or controlling the same, such lights and other signals as may be,pl1:scribed by the Light-House Board. Sec. 5. t this-Act shall be null and void if actual construction of m'§’“° °‘ °°”“'*'“°· the bridge herein authorized be not commenced in one year and com- ` pleted within three years from the date hereof. Sec. 6. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby -*¤=¤¤°¤°¤*~ expressly reserved. ‘ ·· Approved, April 21, 1904. ‘ CHAP. 1409.-An Act In relation to the location of the nav' ble channel of the A H1 2L 19* Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana. lga [Pubns, N0. 132.] Whereas by deed dated the thirtieth day of April, eighteen hundred *’*’°¤¤*>l°· and eighty-six, and recorded in the recorder’s office ofg Cook County, Illinois, on the eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in book twenty-five hundred and twelve of records, at page four hundred and eighty, the owners of the northwest quarter of section thirty township thirty-seven north, range fifteen east, of the third principal meridian, in Cook County, Illinois, gave and granted unto the United States of America free and unobstructed right of wa in and through the above-described und, two hundred feet in widsth, for purposes of a channel for the Calumet River, in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty- four, and in order to enable the United States to straighten the channel of the said Calumet River and conform to a survey and realignment of the channel lines of said river as adopted, established, and shown by _ W plat approved by the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army "" and filed for record in the office of the recorder of deeds of Cook County, Illinois, on the seventeenth day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as document one million one hundred and two thousand two hundred and eight -four, entitled "Ma of the Calumet River, Illinois, from Lake Michigan to Calumet Lahe, to accompany report of W. G. Ewing, United States attorney, to the Attorney-General respectin oession of right of way for improvement of said river under Act of &ngress approved July fifth. eighteen hundred and eighty- V°l· ”·· P- 1*3-