Chapter 194. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, and to establish it as a post-road,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two
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CHAP. 194.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, and to establish it as a post-road,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. February 25, 1909.[[S. 7829](/us/bill/70/s/7829).][[Public, No. 263.](/us/pl/70/263)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section two of the ActMississippi River.Mercer County Bridge Company may rebuild bridge across at Keithsburg. 111. approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, and to establish it as a post-road, be, and is hereby, so amended as to permit, in rebuilding and in relocating the bridge, the construction of a lift draw span ofLift draw span. etc. not less than two hundred and twenty feet in the clear in place of the existing swing draw span having two openings each one hundred andVol. 22, p. 51, amended. sixty feet in the clear: and also to permit the adjoining span to be two hundred and five feet in length instead of two hundred and fifty: *Provided*, That the bridge shall be rebuilt in accordance with the provisions*Provisos.*Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84. of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable streams,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: *And provided further*, That the right reservedAmendment in section six of said Act is also reserved as to this amendment.
Approved, February 25, 1909.