Chapter 19. To authorize the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River near the city of Hannibal, in the State of Missouri
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CHAP. 19.— An Act To authorize the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River near the city of Hannibal, in the State of Missouri. February 10, 1914.[[H. R. 9574](/us/bill/63/hr/9574).][[Public, No. 55](/us/pl/63/55).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Missouri, Kansas andMississippi River.Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company may bridge, near Hannibal, Mo.
Texas Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kansas, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, from a point on the Missouri shore near the confluence of Bear Creek with said Mississippi River to a point in the State of Illinois opposite thereto, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the constructionVol. 34, p. 84. 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, February 10, 1914.