Chapter 426. Authorizing the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company to build two bridges across the Rio Grande
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CHAP. 426.— An Act Authorizing the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company to build two bridges across the Rio Grande. June 25, 1910.[[H. R. 25715](/us/bill/61/hr/25715).][[Public, No. 308](/us/pl/61/308).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Kansas City, Rio Grande. Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway may bridge. Presidio Del Norte, Mexico, to El Oro, Tex.
Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Texas, and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kansas are hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railway bridge, or a railway, wagon and foot bridge, and approaches thereto across the Rio Grande from a point suitable to the interests of navigation near Presidio Del Norte, on the Rio Grande, on the Mexican side thereof, to a similar opposite point in the State of Texas in the county of Presidio, called or to be called “El Oro,” in the State of Texas, the said bridge to connect the line of railway of the said Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas with the line of railway of the said Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway in the Republic of Mexico; and also, the Del Rio, Tex., to Mexican bank. above-named railway companies, their successors, and assigns are hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railway bridge, or a railway, wagon and foot bridge, and approaches thereto across the Rio Grande from a point suitable to the interests of navigation near Del Rio, on the Texas side, to a similar point opposite on the Mexican side, the said bridge to connect a line of railway from the Texas side of said river with a line of railway on the Mexican side thereof; and each of said bridges shall be built in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to regulate Vol. 34, p. 84. the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.
Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 25, 1910.