Chapter 18. to amend and alter an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of a railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Burlington, Iowa,” approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight
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CHAP. 18.— An Act to amend and alter an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of a railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Burlington, Iowa,” approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.February 21, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bridge over Mississippi River. Burlington. Iowa.Time for constructing extended.Vol. 25, p. 360.Railroad, wagon,etc., or railroad or wagon and foot bridge.
That the time for commencement and completion of the bridge authorized by said act, as provided in section six thereof, be, and is hereby, each extended two years from the passage of this act. Sec. 2. That the said Burlington and Illinois Bridge Company, its successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 18–20. 1890.13 and maintain, under the provisions of said act, as far as applicable, .except as herein modified, altered, or amended, either a railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge, or a railroad, or wagon and foot-passenger bridge, and in the event that only a wagon and foot-passenger Bridge be built that the provisions in said act for the passage of railroad trains and rights of railway companies incident thereto shall not apply.
Sec. 3. That in case the bridge authorized at or near Burlington,length of spans modified. Iowa, by an act approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be constructed in the immediate vicinity of the existing railroad bridge, the length of spans required by said act may be so modified as to make the clear channel-ways correspond in length and location to the clear channel-ways of the existing bridge : Provided,*Proviso*.Not to affect navigation. That in the opinion of the Secretary of War the interests of navigation be not. materially affected thereby.
Approved, February 21, 1890.