New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-07
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed ut the Second Session Of the
Forty first Congress.
GPUBLIC REsOLUTION-No. -.

PUBLIC KESOLUTION-NO. a.
A RESOLUTION to determine the con-
structiOn of an act to provide internal
revenue to support the government, and
for other purposes, approved june 80,
1864.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled. That the
act entitled San act to provide internal reve-
nue. to support the government to pay inter
est on the public debt, and for other pur-
pOses," approved June thirty, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-four, and the several amend
ments thereunto, shall not be construed so as
to impose tax on any understandable sum
added to the contingent fund of any fire,
marine, inland, life, health, accident, or
like insurance company, or any unearned
premium or premiums received for risks
assumed by snch companies, or any moneys
paid by mutual life insurance companies
to their policy-hOlders
Approved, July 10, 1870.
PUBLIC REsOLUTION-NO. 76.
A RESOLUTION to pay expenses of dele
cations of Indians visiting the city OF
Washington.
Resolved by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That there
be appropriated ont of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, the
sum Of fifty thousand dollars to enable the
Secretary Of the Interior to defray the ex-
penses of delegations Of Indians visiting
Washington, and to purchase presents for
the members thereof in the year eighteen
hundred and seventy.
Approved, July IL, 1870.
PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. III
JOINT RESOLUTION granting the Evans
vile and Southern Illinois Railroad Com
pany the right to build bridge across the
Big Wabash river.
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Evansville and Southern Illinois Railroad
Company, corporation. organized under an
act of the Legislature of the State of Illinois,
is hereby granted the right to construct an
iron or wooden bridge for railroad purposes
and as a public highway. either with a
draw or continuous span, as it may deter
mine, across the Big Wabash river at any
point said corporation may select either at
the little chain, in or opposite White county,
and Posey county, Indiana, or at
any point above the same, extending
up said river as far as the town
Of New Harmony, in said county of
Posey, and State of Indiana; and should
said railroad company hereafter at any
time consolidate with the Evansville, Car
mi, and Paducah Railroad Company, of
Indiana, or any company now organized
or hereafter to be organized in the said
State of Indiana, that the rights and fran
chises hereby granted shall enure to and
become vested in said consolidated COM
pany and its assigns forever: Provided,
That the bridge to be constructed under
the authority hereby granted shall not in
terfere with the free navigation Of said |
stream beyond what is necessary in order |
to carry into full effect the rights and priv |
leges hereby granted, and shall be built at |
right angles with the current of the stream !
where said bridge may be erected, and that |
\ space Ofat least one hundred and seventy |
feet over the main channel of said stream |
shall be left between the piers of said struc-
are; and provided further. that if said |
bridge shall be built with draw of not less |
han one hundred feet in width, and said |
lraw is kept in repair for the passage of |
BOATS at all times, the detention of passing
aid bridge shall not be construed as inter-
ering with the navigation of the stream:
ind 1t is further provided, that said bridge
hall be and considered a legal structure
md shall be post road for the transmission
# the United States mails: and provided
urther, that in case said bridge is built
With continuous span, the piers shall be
It least two hundred feet apart, and the
ridge shall be built at such height as not
o interfere with the navigation of said
liver by steamboats,.
Approved, July Ia, 1870.