Chapter 1793. To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight
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CHAP. 1793.— An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. April 28, 1904.[[H. R. 2866](/us/bill/33/hr/2866).][[Public, No. 225](/us/pl/33/225).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That an Act entitled “AnMississippi River.Bridge across at Memphis.
Tenn.Vol. 25, p. 92, amended. Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee,” approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows, namely: " “That the Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company,Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company may bridge. a corporation created and organized under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be and the same are hereby, authorized and empowered to erect, construct, and maintain a bridge over the Mississippi River from or near the town of Hopefield, in the State of Arkansas, to or near the taxing district of Shelby Comity, commonly known as the city of Memphis, in the State, of Tennessee.
Said bridge shall be constructed to provide for the passage of passenger and freight railway trains and wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, and. at. the option of the company by which it may be built, for foot passengers: *Provided, **Provisos.*Toll.That said bridge company shall charge and receive such reasonable rates of toll for the passage of railway trains of all kinds, for the pas-sage of passengers traveling upon said railway trains, for the passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, for the transit of animals, and for foot passengers crossing said bridge as may be approved from time to time by the Secretary of War: *Provided further,* That, such reasonableMaximum for rail-way passengers added. rates of toll so approved by the Secretary of War shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five cents for each passenger over said bridge by passengers upon railway trains crossing the same.
" Sec. 2. That, all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act be,Repeal. and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, April 28, 1904.