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1st Session.

No. 177.

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A communication from the Light-House Board in relation to the maintenance of lights on bridges by the owners thereof.

APRIL 21, 1882.-Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

April 19, 1882.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a letter of the Light-House Board, dated the 18th instant, asking that Congress be requested to add to each of the bills, H. R. Nos. 2052, 3753, 2923, 4934, 4624, and 4486, extending the operations of the Light-House Board over the Red River, Louisiana, the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon, the Atchafalaya River and its tributaries, Louisiana, the Great Kanawha, Tennessee, and Ohio rivers, the Saint Croix and Chippewa rivers, and the Illinois River, a paragraph to read as follows:

All parties owning, occupying, or operating bridges over (here insert name of river) shall maintain, at their own expense, from sunset to sunrise, throughout the year, such lights on their bridges as may be required by the Light-House Board for the security of navigation; and all persons owning, occupying, or operating any bridge over the —River shall, in any event, maintain all lights on their bridge that may be necessary for the security of navigation.

The board states that this provision is a copy of section 5 of the act to authorize the construction of bridges over the Ohio River, approved December 17, 1872, and a similar provision is to be found in other acts anthorizing the erection of bridges over navigable rivers.

I have, accordingly, respectfully to transmit this communication, so that action may be taken by Congress in the matter, if it appears wise to do so, agreeably to the desire of the Light-House Board.

Very respectfully,

CHAS. J. FOLGER,

Secretary.

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