Chapter 469. To authorize the Albany Railroad Bridge Company or the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to reconstruct a bridge across the Mississippi River
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CHAP. 469.— An Act To authorize the Albany Railroad Bridge Company or the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company to reconstruct a bridge across the Mississippi River. February 6, 1907. [[S. 7760](/us/bill/59/s/7760).] [[Public, No. 64](/us/pl/59/64).] Whereas the Albany Railroad Bridge Company, a corporation, owns, Preamble.and the Chicago and North western Rai1way Company, a corporation, has leased and is using, a railroad bridge across the Mississippi River between the city of Clinton, Iowa, and an opposite point on the main bank in the State of Illinois, and by reason of the age of said bridge and its inadequacy to present conditions and needs it is proposed to 880enlarge such bridge or replace it with a larger and more serviceable structure:
Therefore *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mississippi River.Albany Railroad Bridge Company or Chicago and North-western Railway Company may reconstruct bridge across, at Clinton, Iowa. That said Albany Railroad Bridge Company, or with its consent said Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, its successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to enlarge said existing bridge across the Mississippi River, with its approaches, or to replace said bridge and its approaches with a new bridge and approaches in the same location as the existing bridge or south of such location and not more than one hundred feet *Ante*, p. 84.therefrom, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and Railroad bridge.six; and said enlarged or reconstructed bridge may be maintained and operated as a railroad bridge.
Sec. 2. Time of reconstruction. That this Act shall be null and void unless the work of enlarging or replacing said bridge is begun within one year and is completed within three years from the date of the passage of this Act. Sec. 3. Amendment That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 6, 1907.