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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 46 STAT. · May 11, 1872 · Chapter 72

Chapter 72. Granting the Consent of Congress to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri, in substitution for and in lieu of an existing bridge constructed under the authority of an Act entitled “An Act to a

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CHAP. 72.— An Act Granting the Consent of Congress to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri, in substitution for and in lieu of an existing bridge constructed under the authority of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri,” approved May 11, 1872. March 10, 1930.[[S. 2668](/us/bill/71/s/2668).][[Public, No. 68](/us/pl/71/68).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Missouri River.Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company may bridge, at Boonville, Mo., in lieu of present structure.
That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Missouri, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri, in lieu of and in substitution for the present bridge constructed under the authorityVol. 17, p. 99. of an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridgeConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. across the Missouri River at Boonville, Missouri,” approved May 11, 1872, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, except as otherwise herein provided. 83 Sec. 2.
When the new bridge and approaches thereto are completed Removal of old bridge on completion of new one.and put in operation the old or existing bridge shall be removed by said Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company within a reasonable time to be fixed by the Secretary of War and in a manner satisfactory to the District Engineer of the Engineer Department at large in charge of the district within which said bridge is located. Sec. 3. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortagage all Right conferred to sell, etc.the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company, its 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 mortagage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation.
Sec. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment.expressly reserved. Approved, March 10, 1930.
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