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Volume 44 · 1010

Public Law 69–45

To legalize a bridge across the Fox River in Algonquin Township, McHenry County, Illinois, and for other purposes.

Approved January 21, 1927

Statutory text

An Act

To legalize a bridge across the Fox River in Algonquin Township, McHenry County, Illinois, 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 consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, a corporation of the State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, to maintain and operate in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, a railroad bridge and approaches thereto now constructed across the Fox River at a point in section 18, township 43 north, range 9 east of the third principal meridian, Algonquin Township, McHenry

Approval of traffic facilities required.

County, Illinois, if in the judgement of the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War the bridge as constructed provides suitable and proper facilities for present and prospective navigation.

Sec. 2.

The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, its successors and assigns, and any corporation to which such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise is hereby authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation.

Sec. 3.

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, January 21, 1927.

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