Chapter 465. Extending the time for the completion of the bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Compa
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CHAP. 465.— An Act Extending the time for the completion of the bridge across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee, authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River,’” approved August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve. September 8, 1916.[[S. 5886](/us/bill/64/s/5886).][[Public, No. 273](/us/pl/64/273).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Mississippi River.
That the time for the com-831pletion of a bridge now in the course of construction across the MississippiTime extended for bridging, Memphis, Tenn., by Arkansas and Memphis Railway, etc., Company.Vol. 37, p. 359, amended. River at Memphis, Tennessee, which the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company, its successors or assigns, was authorized to construct, maintain, and operate by an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company to construct, maintain and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River,’” approved August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the first day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen: *Provided,* That the wagon-way*Proviso*.Completion of wagon way. portion of said bridge and the approaches thereto shall be completed within said time.
Sec. 2. That the proviso in section one of said Act approved AugustApproaches.Vol. 37, p. 359, amended.Highway bridge to be maintained, etc. twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “*Provided,* That said bridge shall be so constructed, 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, to be used by vehicles, pedestrians, horsemen, animals, and all kinds of traffic and travel, for the transit of which reasonable rates of toll may be charged and received, but no rate forTolls. passage of a single passenger on a railroad train shall exceed twenty-five cents: *Provided further,* That the term ‘passage’ as used in the*Proviso*.Passenger rights. foregoing proviso, for which said sum of twenty-five cents is made the maximum rate of charge, shall include the right of the passenger to be carried over the approaches and connecting railway tracks of said bridge from the nearest stopping place to receive and discharge passengers at one terminal thereof to the nearest like stopping place at the other terminal thereof.
And this proviso shall apply to andApplicable to other bridge.*Ante*, p. 723. govern the authorized charge for passage to be made by the Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company for passage over its bridge and the approaches and connecting railway tracks thereof, across the Mississippi River, at Memphis, Tennessee.” Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, September 8, 1916.