Chapter 168. To authorize the Saint Joseph and Grand Island Railway Company, in the reconstruction of the bridge across the Missouri River at or near Saint Joseph, Missouri, to lower said bridge and to shorten the draw spans thereof
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CHAP. 168.— An Act To authorize the Saint Joseph and Grand Island Railway Company, in the reconstruction of the bridge across the Missouri River at or near Saint Joseph, Missouri, to lower said bridge and to shorten the draw spans thereof. February 26, 1904. [[S. 3720](/us/bill/58/s/3720).] [[Public, No. 29](/us/pl/58/29).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Missouri River. Saint Joseph and Grand Island Railway Company may reconstruct bridge at Saint Joseph, Mo.
That it shall be lawful for the Saint Joseph and Grand Island Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the States of Kansas and Nebraska, in reconstructing the bridge across the Missouri River at or near Saint Joseph, Missouri, the construction of which was authorized by Act ofVol. 17, p. 33. Congress approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, toChanges. so reconstruct said bridge that the vertical clearance shall not be less than twenty-nine feet three and one-fourth inches above low-water mark, and not less than nine feet three and one-fourth inches above high-water mark, and that said spans on each side of the central pivot pier of the draw shall be not less than one hundred and fifty-three feet in length.
Approved, February 26, 1904.