Chapter 59. To extend the time authorizing the Saint Louis and Birmingham Railroad to build a bridge across Tennessee River at Clifton
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CHAP. 59.— An Act To extend the time authorizing the Saint Louis and Birmingham Railroad to build a bridge across Tennessee River at Clifton. Tennessee.April 21, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Bridge across Tennessee River at Clifton, Tenn. That the Saint Louis and Birmingham Railway Company, being a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee, and to which authority was given by an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to authorize building a bridge over Tennessee River,” approved June sixth, eighteen hundredVol. 27, p 47.Time for construction extended. and ninety-two, is hereby given the right to begin the construction of the bridge therein authorized according to the terms of said Act within twelve months from the approval of this Act, the said bridge to be completed within three years from said date.
It is hereby further provided that if the construction of said bridge be not commenced and the structure completed within the times hereinbefore mentioned, then this Act, and that approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to which reference is hereinbefore made, shall be null and void. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment, etc. expressly reserved without any liability on the part of the United States for any damages on account of such alteration, amendment, or repeal.
Approved, April 21, 1894.