Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-12-04

salary of the United States consul at Tien
Tsin, China, shall, from and after the pas
sage of this act, be thirty-five hundred dol.
| lars and the laws regulating the duties Of
salaried consuls shall govern said consul
Approved, May II, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 50.
| AN ACT to authorize the construction of
certain bridges across the Mississippi
river, and to establish the same as post
| roads.
Be IL enacted by the Senate aud House OF
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That 1T
| shall be lawful for the Western Illinois
| Bridge Company, q corporation existing
under the laws of the State of Missouri, to
build bridge across the Mississippi river
! at the city of Quincy, Illinois, for the pur-
sons and property, such as are usually
| crossed on wagon bridges and also to lay
on and over said bridge railway-tracks for
| the more perfect connection of any rail-
roads that are or shall be constructed to
| the said river at or opposite said point, and
that, when constructed, all persons and
property as aforesaid, and also all trains OF
all roads terminating at said river, at or
opposite said point, shall be allowed to
cross said bridge for reasonable compensa-
ton, to be made to the owners of said
bridge, under the limitations and condi-
tions hereinafter provided and in case OF
any litigation or alleged obstruction to
the free navigation of said river, the cause
NAV be tried before the district court Of
the United States of any State in which
any portion of said obstruction or bridge
touches; and that all railway companies
desiring to use said bridge shall have and
be entitled to equal rights and privileges in
tho passage of the same, and in the use
of the machinery and fixtures thereof, and
of all the approaches thereto, under and
upon such terms and conditions as shall he
prescribed by the Secretary of War, upon
hearing the allegations and proofs of the
parties, in case they shall not agree.
Sec. 2. That said bridge may, at the OPP
ton of the company building the same, be
built either as pivot draw-bridge, or with
unbroken or continuous spans: Provided,
That if the said bridge shall be made with
unbroken or continuous spans, it shall not
be of less elevation, in any case, than fifty
feet above high-water mark, as understood
at the point of location, to the bottom
chord of the bridge; nor shall the spans of
said bridge be less than two hundred and
fifty feet in lenght, and the piers of said
bridge shall be parallel with the current of
the river, and the main span shall be over
the main channel of the river, and not less
than three hundred feet in length: And
provided also, That if said bridge shall be
constructed as pivot draw-bridge, the
same shall be constructed with draw over
the main channel of the river at an Access
sible and naviagble point, and with spant
of not less than one hundred and sixty fees
in length, in the clear, on each side of the
central or pivot pier OF the draw and
the next adjoining spans to the draw shall
not be less than two hundred and fifty feet,
if the proper location of the draw over the
channel will admit spans of this width be-
tween it and the shore, and said spans shall
not bo Ices than low-water mark, and not
less than ten feet above extreme high-water
mark, measuring to the bottom chord of
the bridge, and the piers of said bridge
shall be parallel with the current of the
river: And provided also, That said draw
shll abe opened promptly, upon reasonable
signal, for the passage of the boats whose
construction shall not be such as to admit
of their passage under the permanent
spans of said bridge, except when trains
are passing over the same but in no case
shall unnecessary delay occur in opening
the said draw during or after the passage
of trains.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 20.
AN ACT making appropriations to sup
ply DEFICIENCIES in the new appropriations
for the service of the government for the
fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, and for for
mer years, 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
following sums, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, be, and the same are hereby
appropriated for the service of the year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy two, for the period and pur-
poses hereinafter expressed, namely:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
For carriage for the House of Represen-
tatives, three thousand dollars and con-
paid for, but all articles delivered on the
trip shall be paid for as one lead. And for
| a deficiency in the appropriation for fold
ing documents, including pay for folders
and material therefor, thirty thousand dol
lars.
TO pay the official reporters of the Globe
in each house the amount which the
Comptroller of the Treasury may find sew
orally due them for services during the ses-
siOns of the Forty-secona Congress, under
the eighteenth section of the act entitled,
"An act making appropriations for sun
dry civil expenses of the government for
the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, and for other
purposes" approved July twenty-eighth,
eighteen hundred and siXty-siX.
That the Speaker is hereby authorized
to employ a clerk, at a salary of eighteen
hundred dollars per annum, and no APP
pointment on the doorkeeper's rolls shall
be made to take the place of the person
hitherto detailed as clerk to the Speaker,
and from March first TO the close of this
| fiscal year, six hundred dollars are hereby
appropriated for his salary.