Chapter 636. to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Missouri River at or near Kansas City, Kansas, and not over ten miles above the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railway bridge at Kansas City, Missouri,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine
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CHAP. 636.— An Act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Missouri River at or near Kansas City, Kansas, and not over ten miles above the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railway bridge at Kansas City, Missouri,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.June 28, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bridge at Kansas City. Kans.Vol. 25, p. 752, amended.
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 extendedCommencement and completion. one year from the passage of this act. 184FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 636, 638. 1890. Sec. 2. That section three shall be amended by striking out the words “fifty-two” and inserting the word “fifty,” so it snail read as follows: Sec. 3. Spans. That the said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans: the spans thereof shall not be less than four hundred feet in length in the clear, and the main span shall be over the main channel ot the river.
The lowest part of the superstructure of said bridge shall be at least fifty feet above extreme high-water mark, as understood at the point of location,” and this bridge shall be at right angles to, and its piers parallel with, the current of the *Proviso*.Existing laws.river: *Provided*, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to repeal or modify any of the provisions of law now existing in reference to the protection of the navigation of rivers, or to exempt this bridge from the operation of the same.
Approved, June 28, 1890.