Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-09-20
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session of the Forty
Second Congress.
PUBLISHED By AUTHORsrY.l
GENERAL NATURE-No. 3d.

cases lTOm SldIe cOuIIS, aPPio'OU O-J
twenty-sevepth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-six,u approved March second,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
Be 1t epaacted 6y the Senate and House Of
REPRESENTATIVES of the United States or
.4nlericG an Congress assembled, That
whenever y personal action has been or
shall be brought in any State court by an
alien against any citizen OF State who Is,
or at any time the alleged action Occrued
WAS, a civil officer of the United States, be
ING nonresident of that State wherein ju-
risd;ction is obtained by the State court
Inv personal service of process, such action
may be removed into the circuit court of
the United States in and for the district in
which the defendant shall have been serv-
ed with process, in the same manner as
now provided for the removal of an action
brought in State court by the provisions
of section three of the act of March Sec
ond, eighteen hundred and thirty-three,
entitled IAN act further to provide for the
collection of duties on imports"
Approved, March 80, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. SO.
AN ACT to authorize the construction OF
a bridge across the Mississippi river at "l
near the town of Clinton, in the stare Oh
Iowa, and other bridges across said river.
and to establish them as postroads'
Be IL enacted 6y the SeiaG'e and House 81
RepresentatiUes of tie United StdteS ~
AmericG in Congress assembled, That II
shall be lawful for any person or persons
company or corporation, TO build a bridge
across the Mississippi river, at such pOin
on said river within fifteen miles of the
town Of Clinton, in the State of Iowa. a.
NAV accommodate the Chicago, BurIing
non and Quincy railroad and its conncc
ii ms al. he west side of aid river, and tO
lay on OF over said bridge railway tracks
for the more perfect connection ofany rail-
roads that are, or shall be, constructed
the said river at or opposite said point.
under the limitations and conditions here
il afer provided; that said bridge shall
or inteI fere with the free navigation OF
! a d river beyond what is necessary in or
der 20 carry into effect the rights and priv
ileges hereby granted and in case OF any
litigation arising from any obstruction Oh
alleged obstruction, to the free navigation
of said river, the cause may be tried before
he district court of the United States of
any State in which any portion of said OBJ
AtructiOn or bridge touches PrOUided,
That said bridge shall not be so located or
constructed a. to interfere in any manner
with the approaches to the railroad bridge
now erected at Clinton, or with the piers OF
the same, or SO as to Obstruct in any man
mer the passage of sad bridge by boats,
vessels, or RATS, or to render such passage
more difficult or dangerous Provided,
hOUeUer, That this clause shall not be con
strued to prohibit the crossing of the APP
J,roaches to said bridge, if such crossing
shall be found necessary.
Sec. 2. That any bridge built under the |
provisions of this act may, at the option of
he company building the same, be built |
as bridge, with a pivot or other |
form of draw. or with unhroken or contin-
nous spans: Provided, That if the said
bridge shall be made with unbruken and
spans, it shall not be of less ell
ovation, in any case. than fifty feet above
extreme 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 one hundred aud |
fifty feet in length, 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 that three hundred feet in length: And |
provided also, That if any bridge built |
under this act shall be constructed as a |
'lraw-bridge, the same shall be constructed /
rs pivot draw-bridge, with a draw over
the main channel of the river at all acces-
sible and navigable point, and with spans |
Of not less than one hundred and sixty |
feet in length in the clear of each side of |
the central channel or pivot pier of the |
draw and the next adjoining spans TO the |
draw shall not be less than two hundred |
and fifty feet; and said spans shall not be |
less than thirty feet above low-water mark. |
and not less than ten 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, where said bridge may be erect
ed: And provided also, That said draw |
shall be opened promptly, upon reasona-
BILE signal, for the passage of boats.
Sec. 8. That any bridge constructed un-
der this act, and according to its limiia-
lions, shall be lawful structure, and shall |
Z known and recognized as q post-route,
upon which, also nos higher barge shall
he made for the transmission over the |
same, of the mails. the troops, and the !
munitions of war of the United States |
I han the rate per mile for their transpOrta-
ton over the railroads public highways |
leading TO the said bridge and the United |
States shall have the right of wav for post |
;Il telegraph purposes across said bridge.
Sec. That all railway companies desir- |
ing to use the bridge shall have and be en- /
Titled to equal rights and privileges in the
passage of the same, and the use of the |
and fixtures thereof and of ALI |
the approaches thereto, under and upon |
such terms and conditions as shall be nre. |
scribed by the Secretary of War, upon |
hearing the allegations and proofs of the |
parties in case they shall not agree.
Sec. That the structure herein author
lied shall be built and located under and
ubject TO such regulations for the sucurity
III navigation of said river as the Secreta-
~ of War shall prescribe and the said