Chapter 242. To authorize Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River
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CHAP. 242.— An Act To authorize Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River. July 20, 1912.[[H. R. 17239](/us/bill/62/hr/17239).][[Public, No. 232](/us/pl/62/232).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Mississippi River.Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company may bridge, Memphis, Tenn.*Post*, p. 359.
That Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee, its successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate 196 a bridge, and all approaches thereto, across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation,Vol. 34, p. 84. in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Separate roadway for highway traffic.
That said bridge shall be so constructed, maintained, and operated that in addition to its use for railroad trains and trolley cars it shall provide for a separate roadway and approaches and continuous use by the public as a highway bridge to be used by vehicles, pedestrians, horsemen, animals, and all kinds of highway traffic and travel, for the transit of which reasonable rates of toll may be charged andTolls, etc. received, but no rate for passage of a single passenger on a railroad train shall exceed twenty-five cents: *Provided further*, That the said Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal CompanyApproaches for highway purposes. shall not be required to construct the approaches to said bridge necessary to adapt the same as a highway for trolley car, vehicles, travelers on foot, and other like traffic, until there shall be paid, or payment thereof secured to its satisfaction, the sum of fifty thousand dollars by parties locally interested in such highway feature of said bridge.
Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, July 20, 1912.