Volume 28 · 601
Public Law 53–21
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of n bridge across the Missouri River at some point within one mile below and one mile above the present limits of the city of Jefferson, Missouri,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Approved January 8, 1895
Statutory text
An Act
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of n bridge across the Missouri River at some point within one mile below and one mile above the present limits of the city of Jefferson, Missouri,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section three of the Act aforesaid be amended by adding the following after the word “prescribed” in the last line of said section, to wit: Provided, That said bridge may be a pivot drawbridge; and if the same shall be constructed
Pivot draw.
as a pivot drawbridge it shall have one draw span affording
Ante, p. 81.
two clear openings of not less than two hundred feet each, which draw span shall be maintained over the main channel of the river at an accessible and navigable point and with a fixed span or spans each not less than three hundred feet in length in the clear; and the headroom under each span shall not be less than ten feet above the standard high-water grade line, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with and the bridge itself at right angles to the current of the river: Provided, also,
Opening draw.
That said draw shall be opened promptly by said Company, upon reasonable signal, for the passage of boats and rafts: Provided, further, That the said Jefferson City Bridge and Transit Company
Aids to navigation.
shall, at its own expense, build and maintain, under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of War, such wings, dams, and booms, or other work necessary to maintain the channel within the draw span of said bridge, and shall, at their own expense, maintain a depth of water through said draw span not less than that now existing, as shown by the report of the War Department, at the point where said bridge may be located; and if said Jefferson City Bridge and Transit Company shall fail to maintain such channel aforesaid, then the Secretary of War may cause said channel to be opened and maintained at proper depth for navigation through said span, at the expense of the owners of said bridge.
Approved, January 8, 1895.