Chapter 348. To amend an Act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to authorize Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River.”August 23, 1912.[[S. 7424](/us/bill/62/s/7424).][[Public, No. 297](/
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CHAP. 348.— An Act To amend an Act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to authorize Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River.”August 23, 1912.[[S. 7424](/us/bill/62/s/7424).][[Public, No. 297](/us/pl/62/297).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Mississippi River.Bridge at Memphis, Tenn.Ante, p. 195. amended.
That an Act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to authorize Arkansas anti Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River,” be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: " “Section 1. That Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge andArkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company may bridge, at Memphis, Tenn. Terminal Company, organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee, its successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge, and all approaches thereto, across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisionsVol. 34, p. 84. of the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,’ approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided*, That said bridge shall be so constructed,*Proviso*.Separate roadway for highway traffic. maintained, and operated that, in addition to its use for railroad purposes, it shall provide for an adequate and a separate roadway and approaches and continuous use by the public as a highway bridge, e used by vehicles, pedestrians, horsemen, animals, and all kindsTolls, etc. of highway traffic and travel, for the transit of which reasonable rates of toll may be charged and received, but no rate for passage of a single passenger on a railroad train shall exceed twenty-five cents.
“Sec. 2. That Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and TerminalApproaches for highway purposes. Company shall not be required to construct those portions of the approaches on either side of said bridge that are required to make the same ready for vehicles, pedestrians, and other highway traffic until there shall be paid to said company or secured to its satisfaction by local authorities or interests the sum of fifty thousand dollars, andPayment by local interests. said company shall not be required thereafter to maintain or bear any of the costs of maintaining such portions of said approaches and shall not collect or receive tolls for use of said approaches.
“Sec. 3. That Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and TerminalTransfer of wagon way, etc. Company shall have the right to sell, transfer, or lease to any county, city, improvement district, or municipality any part of such portions of said approaches or of the separate roadway provided for by this Act, or both, and in the event of any such sale, transfer, or lease the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company shall be relieved of any requirement to maintain the property so sold, transferred, or leased, and shall not thereafter charge or receive any tolls for use of said wagon way and approaches.
“Sec. 4. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act isAmendment. hereby expressly reserved.” " Approved, August 23, 1912.