Volume 27
Public Law 52–53
to amend “An act authorizing the construction of a railway, street railway, motor, wagon, and pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, and to extend the time for the completion of the bridge therein provided for.”
Approved January 28, 1893
Statutory text
An Act
to amend “An act authorizing the construction of a railway, street railway, motor, wagon, and pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River, near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, and to extend the time for the completion of the bridge therein provided for.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section eight of the act entitled “An act authorizing the construction of a railway, street railway, motor, wagon, and pedestrian bridge over the Missouri River, near Council Blurts, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska,” be amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 8.
That this act shall be null and void if construction of said
Time for construction extended.
bridge shall not be commenced on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and be completed on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight: Provided, That
Proviso.
Navigation not to be obstructed.
the navigation of the Missouri River shall not be obstructed by false works during the construction of the bridge.”
Approved, January 28, 1893.