Chapter 48. to correct an error in and to further amend “An act to authorize the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Sunflower
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CHAP. 48.— An Act to correct an error in and to further amend “An act to authorize the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Sunflower. Yazoo, and Tombigbee Rivers, in Mississippi,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.April 2, 1888. Whereas by reason of a clerical error in the copying of the draftPreamble.Vol. 24, p.567. of a bill to be entitled “An act to authorize the Georgia Pacific Railway Company to construct bridges across the Sunflower, Yazoo, and Tombigbee Rivers, in Mississippi,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the title of the said act, and the enacting clauses thereof, names the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company as the beneficiary of the said act, and the corporation upon whom the rights, powers, and privileges therein recited are conferred; and Whereas no corporation of that name exists, and it was intended that the said rights, powers, and privileges should be conferred, not upon the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company, but upon the Georgia Pacific Railway Company, a corporation created and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the States of Alabama and Mississippi; and Whereas the said Georgia Pacific Railway Company, is the true and only beneficiary of said act, and since the passage thereof, has been using all the means in its power to complete its plans for the location and construction of bridges across the rivers named in said act, in accordance with the recommendations and approval of the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and as required by the laws of the United States; and Whereas by section three of said act it is provided that if said bridges shall not be finished within two years from the passage thereof, the rights and privileges thereby granted shall be null and void: and Whereas it will be impossible to complete the plans, location, and construction of said bridges within two years from the passage of said act, as provided therein:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*Georgia Pacific Railway Company may bridge Sunflower, Yazoo, and Tombigbee Rivers, Miss.Name of corporation corrected.Vol. 24. p. 567., That the act entitled “An act to authorize the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Sunflower, Yazoo, and Tombigbee Rivers, in Mississippi,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be, and is hereby, amended by striking from the title and enacting clauses thereof the word “railroad,” wherever it occurs in the statement of the name of the corporation therein mentioned, and inserting, in lieu thereof, the word “railway.” so as to make the corporate name of said corporation read, “ The Georgia Pacific Railway Company,” instead of “The Georgia Pacific Railroad Company.
” And by striking out the words “ two years from the passage of thisTime for completion extended. act,” where they occur in the final clause of section three of the act, and inserting the words “four years from March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,” in lieu thereof, so as to make said final clause read as follows: “And if said bridges shall not be finished within four years from March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the rights and privileges hereby granted shall be null and void.
” Approved, April 2, 1888.