Chapter 1001.
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CHAP. 1001.— An act amendatory of an act authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, Missouri, approved February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.September 10, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Vol. 84, ch. 91, p. 377, amended.Bridge at Saint Louis Mo That section eleven of the act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, Missouri.” approved February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be, and the same is Leavenworth Rapid Transit Railway Company granted right of way through Fort Leavenworth Reservation.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 1001, 1006, 1007. 1888.475 hereby, amended by striking out the words “stockholder or” wherever they occur in said section, so as to make said section read as follows: " ”Sec. 11. That whereas a principal reason for giving authority toPooling of earnings forbidden. build the bridge herein contemplated is to secure reasonable rates and tolls for corporations and individuals for passing over the same, the Saint Louis Merchants’ Bridge Company, or its successors or assigns, shall not agree or consent to the consolidation of this bridge company with any other bridge company across the Mississippi River, or to the pooling of the earnings of this bridge company with the earnings of any other bridge company on said river, No person to be director or manager of both bridges.nor shall any person who is or may be a director or manager of any other bridge over said river be a director or manager of the bridge herein provided for: *Provided*, That if this provision of this *Proviso*.Violation to forfeit.act shall at any time be violated in any of these particulars, such violation shall, without legal proceeding, at once forfeit the privilege hereby granted, and said bridge shall become the property of the United States, and the Secretary of War shall take possession of the same in the name and for the use of the United States.”" Sec. 2.
The right to amend or repeal this act is hereby expresslyAmendment. reserved. Approved, September 10, 1888. Chapter 1006: empowering and directing the Commissioner of Navigation to register and enroll as American vessels certain sailing vessels of foreign construction, repaired in the port of Cleveland, Ohio and named the Josephine and M. C. Upper, respectively. Chapter 1006 25 Stat. 475 1888-09-11 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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