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GENERAL NATuRH-No, 50 I

GENERAL NATuRE-No. 50
AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to au-
thorize the construction of bridge across the
Missouri river at or near st Joseph, Missouri"
approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and
seyenty-two.
Be it enacted Jy the Senate and House Of Repre-
seatatiues ofhte United States Of A'nerica in Con
gresS assembled That the first section of the act
entitled "An act to authorize the construction of
a bridge across the Missouri river at or near ST.
Joseph, Missouri" approved March fifth, eigh-
teen hundred and seyenty-tWo, be, ana the same
is hereby, amended so as to read as follows
Section l. That it shall be lawful for the ST Jo-
seph Bridge Building Company, corporation
organized for that purpose under the general
corporation laws of the State of Missouri, or its
assigns, to construct 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 railways
that are now, which may hereafter be, con
structed to the Missouri river at or near ST.
Joseph; and build, erect, and lay on and over
said bridge ways for wagons vehicles of all
kinds, and 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 termi-
mating 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
hereafter named. The owners of said bridge
may also charge and receive reasonable COM
bridge of all wagons, carriages, vehicles, ami
mails, and foot-passengers.
SEC q That the fifth section of the act of
which this is amendatory be, and the same is
hereby, amended so as to read as follows; Section
8. That the st. Joseph Bridge Building Com
pany, after the passage of this act shall not
have the right to assign the charter which said
company now holds by assignment from the St.
Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company, 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 aforesaid,
from the ST. Joseph and Denver City Railroad
Company to construct any other bridge than the
one now being constructed at st Joseph, M is
souri,: Provided, ho,oeuer, That nothing in this
section contained shall prevent the said bridge
building company from mortgagng said charter
and franchises held by it by assignment fl ON the
said railroad company, with the bridge con-
structed or to be constructed hereunder, in the
manner and for the purposes in and for which
the said bridge building company is or may be
authorized by or under the laws of the State of
Missouri to mortgage its property.
Approved, May l. 1872.