Volume 37
Public Law 62–15
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to legalize and establish a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and to authorize the construction of a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa,” approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Approved August 16, 1911
Statutory text
An Act
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to legalize and establish a pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, and to authorize the construction of a similar bridge at or near Clinton, Iowa,” approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act approved June
Mississippi River.
Rebuilding, etc., bridge, at Prairie du Chien, Wis., authorized.
Vol. 18, p. 62, amended.
Vol. 34. p. 615.
Proviso.
Construction.
Vol. 84, p. 84.
sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, legalizing and declaring a lawful structure the pontoon railway bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, be, and is hereby, so amended as to permit its rebuilding and relocation, with pontoon draw openings, in the two channels of said river of shorter length: Provided, That the bridge shall be rebuilt in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable streams,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.
Sec. 2.
That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby
Amendment.
expressly reserved.
Approved, August 16, 1911.