Chapter CCLX. to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Construction of a Bridge across the Missouri River upon the military Reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.”July 14, 1870.1868, ch. 179
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CHAP. CCLX.— An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Construction of a Bridge across the Missouri River upon the military Reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.”July 14, 1870.1868, ch. 179.Vol. xv. p. 121. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the sixth section of theSt. Joseph and Denver City R. R. Co. may bridge the Missouri at St. Joseph. act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river, upon the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,” be amended, so as to read as follows:
"Section 6. *And be it further enacted,* That it shall be lawful for the Saint Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company, a corporation chartered and created by the laws of the State of Kansas, or their assigns, to build a bridge, and maintain the same, across the Missouri river at or near Saint Joseph, Missouri, on theRights, restrictions, &c.1866, ch. 246, §§ 1–3. Vol. xiv. p. 244. terms, and subject to the limitations and restrictions contained in the first, second, and third sections of the act of Congress, passed July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges, and to establish them as post-roads,” and that said corporation may have, hold, and enjoy all the rights, privileges, and franchises conferred by, and contained in, said last-mentioned act; and said company may construct and maintain ways for wagons, carriages, and for foot passengers, charging and receiving reasonable tolls therefor;Bridge made a post-route. and when said bridge is constructed under said limitations it shall be a lawful structure and be recognized and known as a post-route: *Provided,*Proviso.
That if said bridge shall be constructed as a drawbridge the spans of the draw shall not be less than two hundred feet in the clear on each side of the central point." Approved, July 14, 1870.