Laws of Illinois and Missouri, and act of Congress authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River opposite the city of St. Louis, ... of both the Illinois and Missouri corporat
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781425502225
Subjects: History / United States / General
First sentence: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That Joseph Gillespie, John M. Palmer, Jesse K. Dubois, William Shepard, John Williams, William R. Morrison, L. A. Parks, Levi Davis, T. B. Blackstone, H. C. Moore, Peter H. Willard, R. P. Tansey, Gustavus A. Koerner, C. P. Heaton, L. B. Boomer and Fred. T. Krafft, L. B. Parsons, John Baker, A. H. Lee, and their associates, successors and assigns, be and are hereby created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the Illinois and St. Lois Bridge Company, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining a toll-bridge from any point or place on the Mississippi river opposite to the city of St. Louis, to the western line of this State, with suitable approaches to such bridge, and all convenient appendages and structures for the same.