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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · February 16, 1928 · Chapter 78

Chapter 78. Granting the consent of Congress to the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Rio Grande River, at or near Presidio, Texas

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Chap. 78: Granting the consent of Congress to the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Rio Grande River, at or near Presidio, Texas. Chapter 78 45 Stat. 116 1928-02-16 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public 116 Chapter 78.— An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Rio Grande River, at or near Presidio, Texas. February 16, 1928.[[H. R. 5583](/us/bill/70/hr/5583).][[Public, No. 52](/us/pl/70/52).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Rio Grande.Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company may bridge, between Ojinaga, Mexico and Presidio, Tex.
That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Texas, and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Kansas, their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Rio Grande River, so far as the United States has jurisdiction over the waters of such river, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation between Ojinaga (formerly known as “Presidio Del Norte”), on the Rio Grande, on the Mexican side thereof, and a point in the State of Texas, in the county of Presidio, at or near the town called “Presidio ” in the State of Texas, in accordance withConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84.Consent of Mexico required. the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the approval of the proper authorities in Mexico.
Sec. 2. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all theRight to sell, etc., conferred. rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company of Texas and the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway Company, their successors and assigns, and any corporation to which such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise is hereby authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation.
Sec. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 16, 1928.
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