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OFFICIAL.
i Avs OF THE UNITED STATES pAsSE;
~, ~ AZ Al The SECOND SESSION OF THI:
CONGRESS,
[GESBRAL NATuRE-No. 52 I

AN ACT TO amend an act entitled an act IN an,
tnorlZe the construction of bridge across tbs.
missouri river at or near st Joseph, Missouri
approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and
serenty-two.
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of ReDre-
setdtices Qfthe United States Of ADte5icd n, ION
gress assembled, That the first section Of the act
entitled IAN act to authorize the construction of
. bridge across the Missouri river at or near 81
Joseph, Missouri" approved March fifth eieh-
teeh hundred and seventy-two, be, aud the same
IS hereby, amended as to read as follows
section That it shall be lawful for the ST To.
seph Bridge Building Company, u CORPORATION
organized Ior That purpose under the general
corporation laws of the State of Missouri or itt
assigns, to construct bridge across the Missouri
river AT or near St Joseph, Missouri and to law
on and over said bridge railway tracks for the
more perfect connection of any and all RAILWAYS
that are now, or which may hereafter be, con
Strncted to the Missouri river at or near ST.
Joseph ana build, erect, and lay on and over
saiu bridge ways for wagons, vehicles of All
Kinds, and for the transit of animals and TO
PROVIDE ways for foot passengers, and to kael,
up, MAINTAIN, and operate said bridge for the
purposes aforesaid; and that when said bridge
is constructed all trains of all railroads ter,ni-
mating at said river, and on the opposite side
.hereol, at or near st. Joseph, Missouri, shall
pe aliowed 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
pensation or tolls for the transit over the said
brldge OF all wagons carriages, vehicles, ami
mails, and foot passengers.
SEC. 2. That Tn fifth section of the act of
which this is amendatory be- and the same is
hereby, amended SO as to read as follows: Section
., That the St Joseph Bridge Building Com
pany, after the passage of this act shall not
nave the right to assign the charter which said
company now holds by assignment from the 81
Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company and
which was granted to said last.Eamed company
ny virtue OF an act OF Congress, approved July
fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy 10
any otner 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 Mis-
souri, Prorided, ho,oeoer, That nothing in this
section contained shall prevent the said bridge
puhulng company from mortgaging said charter
and franchises held by it by assignment fl ON ;he
sad railroad company, with the bridge con
structed or to be constructed Hereunder in the
manner and for the purposes in and for which
the sad bridge building company is or may be
authorized by or under the laws of the State OF
Missouri to mortgage it's property.
Approved, May j. 1872.