Public Law 72–433

That in order to facilitate the construction, maintenance, and operation of a highway, connected with the bridge across the Mississippi River at Savanna,

Savanna-Sabula Bridge Company granted right of way over lands within, for highway. Vol. 46, p. 542.

Illinois, authorized by section 2 of the Act of Congress of June 10, 1930 (Public Numbered 330, Seventy-first Congress), between Savanna, Illinois, and Sabula, Iowa, there is hereby granted to the Savanna-Sabula Bridge Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, a right of way or easement for highway purposes not exceeding

Description.

three hundred and twenty-five feet in width over lands of the United States in section 8, township 84 north, range 7 east, fifth principal meridian, in Jackson County, Iowa, reserved or acquired for the purposes of the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge, said right of way or easement being located as shown on “Plan of bridge site and new roadway for Savanna-Sabula Bridge project, November 16, 1931,” attached to and made a part of a certain agreement entered into on the 23d day of December, 1931, between the said Savanna-Sabula Bridge Company and E. C. Hotchkiss, acting superintendent, Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge, pursuant to a certain permit issued to the said Savanna-Sabula Bridge Company by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce November 30, 1931, to construct, maintain, and operate the aforesaid highway over the aforesaid lands of the United States in the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge: Provided, That there is reserved to the United States in

Provisos.

Rights reserved.

perpetuity, control of all game, fur-bearing animals, wild birds, and other wild life on the right of way or easement herein granted, and such right of way or easement shall at all times be subject to regulations prescribed under authority of the Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act of June 7, 1924 (U. S. C., title 16,

Vol. 43, p. 650.

U. S. C., p. 437. No tolls of officers, etc., on official business.

ch. 8): Provided further, That in consideration of the granting of this right of way or easement no toll or other charge shall be exacted by the grantee, its successors or assigns, from any of the officers and employees of the United States, including their vehicles, for traversing the aforesaid bridge, or the highway or approach thereto or the right of way or easement hereby granted, while on official duty: And provided further, That said right of way or easement shall not be

Conditions.

used, except by special permission of the Secretary of Agriculture, for any purpose other than the construction, maintenance, and operation of said highway, including the fencing of said right of way and diversion of the water in the adjacent stream: Provided further, That the grantee shall at all times permit officers and employees of

Access.

the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce, of the United States, when in discharge of their official duties in relation to said Upper Mississippi Wild Life and Fish Refuge, free and unobstructed access to, through, and over said highway.

Sec. 2.

The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the

Rights to sell, etc., conferred.

rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Savanna-Sabula Bridge Company, its successors and assigns; and any corporation or person to which or to whom such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or who shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation or person.

Sec. 3.

That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby

Amendment.

expressly reserved.