Volume 32 · 95
Public Law 57–415
To legalize and maintain a new steel bridge, erected in place of the old wooden structure, across the Little Tennessee River at Niles Ferry, Tennessee, by the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railroad.
Approved April 11, 1902
Statutory text
An Act
To legalize and maintain a new steel bridge, erected in place of the old wooden structure, across the Little Tennessee River at Niles Ferry, Tennessee, by the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railroad.
Preamble.
Whereas the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railroad, the successor, under foreclosure sale by the United States court, of the Knoxville Southern Railroad, came into possession of a wooden bridge across the Little Tennessee River at Niles Ferry, in the State of Tennessee; and
Whereas the safe and proper transportation of freight, passengers, and the United States mails by the said Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railroad required that the old wooden bridge be immediately replaced by a new steel structure which has already been constructed: Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the steel bridge of the
Little Tennessee River.
Bridge at Niles Ferry.
Lawful structure.
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railroad across the Little Tennessee River at Niles Ferry, in the State of Tennessee, be, and the same is hereby, declared a lawful structure, and may be maintained as now constructed by the said railroad: Provided, That whenever in the
Proviso.
Changes.
judgment of the Secretary of War the interests of navigation shall require, the owners of said bridge shall, at their own expense, make such changes and alterations as the Secretary of War may order.
Sec. 2.
That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal
Amendment.
this Act.
Approved, April 11, 1902.