New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-29
Approved june 6, 1872.
GENERAL NAruRE-No. 50. I

tTENERAL NATURE-NO, %.
An act to amend an act entitled can act to
authorize the construction Of bridge
across the Missouri river at or near st.
Joseph, Missouri" approved March fifth,
eighteen hundred and sevsnty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
first section of the act entitled IAN act to
authorize the construction of a bridge
across the Missouri river at or near Sc.
Joseph, Missouri" approved March fifth.
eighteen hundred and seventy-twO, be and
the same is hereby amended so as to read
as follows Section /. That it shall be law
full for the st. Joseph Bridge Building Com
pany, corporation organized for that pur-
pose under the general corporation laws Of
the State of Missouri or its assigns to con-
struct a bridge across the Missouri river at
or near st. Joseph Missouri, and to lay on
and over said bridge railway tracks for the
more perfect connection Of any and all rail.
ways that are now, or which may hereafter
be, constructed 20 the Missouri river at or
near st. Joseph, or to the river on the OPP
pOsite side OF the same, near st. Joseph;
and build erect, and lay on and over said
bridge ways for wagons, vehicles Of all
kinds, aud for the transit Of animals, and
to provide ways for foot passengers, and to
keep up, maintain, and operate said bridge
for the purposes aforesaid; and that when
said bridge is constructed, all trains Of all
railroads terminating at said river, and on
the opposite side thereof, at or near st.
Joseph, Missouri, shall be allowed to cross
said bridge for reasonable compensation, To
be made to the owners of the same, under
the limitations and conditions hereinafter
named. The owners Of said bridge may
also charge and receive reasonable eOmpen-
satiOn or tolls for the transit over the said
bridge of all wagons, carriages, vehicles,
animals, and foot passengers.
SEC. 2. That the fifth section Of the act Of
which this is amendatOry be, and the same
is hereby, amended so a. to read as fol-
lows: Section s. That the st. Joseph
Bridge Building Company, after the pas
sage of this act, shall not have the right to
assign the charter which SAID company
now holds by assignment from the 50.
Joseph and Denver City Railroad Com
pany and which was granted to said last
named company by virtue Of an act
Of Congress, approved July fourteenth,
eighteen hundred and seventy, TO any other
company, person, or persons nor shall
said bridge building company be permitted,
under the said charter so obtained as atOre-
said, from the st. Joseph and Denver City
Railroad Company to construct any other
bridge than the one now being constructed
at st. Joseph. Missouri; provided, how
ever, that nothing in this section contained
shall prevent the said bridge building com
pauy from iB0rtgaging said charter and
francbises held by it by assignment from
the said railroad company, with the bridge
couatrncted OF 10 be constructed therein
der in the manner and for the purposes in
and for which the said bridge building
company is or may be authorized by or I'M
der the laws of the State Of Missouri to
mortgage its property.
Approved May I, 1872.