FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. lll. Ch. 120. 1899. 82] CHAP. 120.-An Act To revive, reenact, and amend an Act to authorize the con- February 8.1899. struction of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near the city of Lexington, "?_i* Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ‘ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved July m}·,{"2E’cg*°P lhgdv twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled *·An Act to pany malymligilige ifi; ` authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at $,‘§}]f‘R"""“° L“*”¥· or near the city of Lexington, MlSSOH1'l," which Act has expired by Char-1¤2.vol.28,p. limitation, be, and is hereby, revived, reenacted, and amended. 12°’"’°““°°°°·°°°‘ That section one of said Act be amended so as to read as follows: “That the Lexington Bridge and Terminal Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Missouri, its assigns, grantees, successors, and legal representatives, be, and are hereby, authorized to build, own, operate, and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto over the Missouri River at or near the city of Lexington, in said State of Missouri. Said hridgeshall be constructed to provide for the pas- 1m1wny.wngon,¤na sage of wagons, carriages, vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of ani- f°°“ *""‘*¤°· mnls, horsemen, and foot passengers. And authority is hereby given to said company and assigns, at its option, to construct said bridge so as to provide for the passage of railway cars and trains propelled by electricity or steam, such reasonable rates of toll to be charged as may ron. be approved from time to time by the Secretary of War. Said corpo- Suspension mage. ration and its assigns may build a suspension bridge, at their option, under the authority hereby granted! _ Sec. 2. That any bridge constructed under this Act and according to Lawful structure its limitations shall be a lawful structure and shall be recognized and ""'d l’°'° “"'°°‘ known as a post route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal~ PMN *~1¤¤¤rhtelegraph and telephone purposes across said bridge. Sec. 3. That said bridge shall be made with unbroken andcontinu- °°“““'“°"°“· ous spans, and shall not be of less elevation in any case than fifty feet · above high-water mark, as understood at the point of location, to the lowest member of the bridge superstructure, nor shall the spans of said bridge over the waterways of said river be less than four hundred feet in length in the clear, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of said river and the bridge itself at right angles _ thereto: Provided, That in case·the approach and passage under the §§Q‘;‘{Q‘;u,,gm°¤_ channel span of said bridge be found at any time dangerous or difiicult of access by the river traiiic theowners of said bridge shall construct, at their own expense, such works of channel regulation and such aids to navigation as the Secretary of War shall order, to render the approach and passage reasonably safe and easy: Provided also, That I·‘8****·°°°· said company or corporation shall maintain at its own expense, from ` sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals on said bridge as the Light-House Board shall prescribe. Section four shall be amended so as to read as follows:
- 81:0. 4. That if said bridge shall be constructed for railroad pur- _RaiIr0ndc0mpani¤•’
poses, then all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge shall "g"“°““°‘ ‘ have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway trains over the same, and over the approaches thereto, upon payment of 3 Ie3SOH3b1G c0mp8HS8Ul0l1 foI‘ its USB; and in casa qlissgreemeutoll the owner or owners of said bridge and the several railroad companies, ‘"“‘ °'"'°’ °*` """*‘°· or any of them, desiring such use shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid and to rules and conditions to which each shall con-` form in using such bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and the proof of the parties.” ' Section Eve shall be amended so as to read as follows:
- · Sue. 5. That any bridge authorized to be constructed under this Act _ Sjg;;:·*g:*:‘{:_*“
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