Free Public Bridge across Big Cypress

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER XXXVII.

An Act to authorize the Building of a Free Public Bridge across Big Cypress, in the Corporate Limits of the City of Jefferson;

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That the city of Jefferson, or the inhabitants thereof, be and are hereby authorized to build a free public bridge across Big Cypress, within the corporate limits of said city.

Sec. 2. That the said bridge, when built, shall be a public highway for the convenience of the public; and The city of Jefferson shall be authorized to take for this purpose any leasement, incorporeal hereditament, franchise, right, or any property, real or personal, that may be necessary, first making due compensation therefor to .the owners thereof; and if it shall be necessary to con demn for this purpose any right, franchise, hereditament, or other property, real or personal, the said city shall be governed by the provisions of the second section of "An Act supplementary to an act and amendatory of an act to regulate railroad companies, approved December the 19th, 1857," and an act amendatory thereof, approved the 28th of November, 1871, so far as the same are applicable. .-

Sec. 3. That this act take effect and be in force'from iind after its passage. ' ;

Approved March 28th, 1873. .'