Volume 32 · 839
Public Law 57–565
To extend the time granted to the Muscle Shoals Power Company by an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, within which to commence and complete the work authorized in the said Act to be done by said company, and for other purposes.
Approved February 18, 1903
Statutory text
An Act
To extend the time granted to the Muscle Shoals Power Company by an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, within which to commence and complete the work authorized in the said Act to be done by said company, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the time allowed the
Muscle Shoals, Ala.
Time extended for construction of canal, etc., by Muscle Shoals Power Company.
Vol. 30, p. 1351.
Muscle Shoals Power Company by section two of an Act entitled “An Act granting to the Muscle Shoals Power Company right to erect and construct canal and power stations at Muscle Shoals, Alabama,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to commence and complete the work therein authorized to be done be extended so that unless the work authorized in said Act to be done be commenced within two years and completed within four years from the date of this Act the privileges granted to said company by said first-mentioned Act shall cease and be determined; and the Secretary of War is
Construction of dams.
authorized, in his discretion, to permit the said company to erect and construct dams which may abut on lands of the United States along the line of the Muscle Shoals Canal upon such terms and conditions as may be deemed just and equitable to the public interests.
Approved, February 18, 1903.