Chapter 185. To amend “An Act authorizing the construction of a railway, street-railway, motor, wagon, and pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska,” and to extend the time for the completion of the bridge therein provided for
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CHAP. 185.— An Act To amend “An Act authorizing the construction of a railway, street-railway, motor, wagon, and pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska,” and to extend the time for the completion of the bridge therein provided for. April 21, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Bridge over Missouri River near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebr.Vol. 26, p. 762.Vol. 27, p. 427.
That section eight of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of a railway, street railway, motor, wagon, and pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska,” as amended by an Act approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 8. Time for construction extended. That this Act shall be null and void if construction of said bridge shall not be commenced on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and be completed on or before the *Provisos.*Navigation not to be obstructed.Maintenance of safe channel.first day of July, nineteen hundred and three: *Provided,* That the navigation of the Missouri River shall not be obstructed by false works during the construction of the bridge: *And provided further,* That such guide piers or dikes as may be required by the Secretary of War for FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 185–187. 1898. 361 the maintenance of a safe channel through the draw spaces as they are arranged, pending the construction of the permanent bridge, shall be at once built and maintained until they shall be no longer necessary.” " Approved, April 21, 1898.