Chapter 164. To authorize the Saint Louis Belt, Illinois and Eastern Traction Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River near the mouth of the Missouri River
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CHAP. 164.— An Act To authorize the Saint Louis Belt, Illinois and Eastern Traction Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River near the mouth of the Missouri River.March 4, 1913.[[S. 8539](/us/bill/62/s/8539).][[Public, No. 449](/us/pl/62/449).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mississippi River.Saint Louis Belt, Illinois and Eastern Traction Company may bridge, near mouth of Missouri.
That the Saint Louis Belt, Illinois and Eastern Traction Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, its successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River from a point on the west side of said river suitable to the interests of navigation between the mouth of the Missouri River and a point five thousand feet below the mouth of the Missouri River, in the State of Missouri, to a point in the State of Illinois suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitledVol. 34, p. 84.
“An Act to regulate 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 herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, March 4, 1913.