§ 492. Bridge as post route; limitation as to charges against Government; telegraph and telephone lines

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1906

   Pub. L. 59–1130 § 2 · 34 Stat. 84

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 492

   (Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 2, 34 Stat. 85.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Mar. 23, 1906, ch. 1130, § 2, 34 Stat. 85.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That any bridge built in accordance with the provisions of Lawful structures and post routes. this Act shall be a lawfid structure and shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over any railroad, street railway, or public highway leading to said bridge: and the United States shall have the right to construct, maintain, and repair, without any charge therefor, telegraph and telephone. lines across and upon said bridge and its approaches; and equal Telegraph, etc., rights. privileges in the use of said bridge and its approaches shall be granted to all telegraph and telephone companies.

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