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Public Law 54–151
To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the building of a railroad bridge at Little Rock, Arkansas,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
Approved May 4, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To revive and reenact the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the building of a railroad bridge at Little Rock, Arkansas,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act approved March
Little Rock Bridge and Terminal Railway Company,
Time extended for bridging Arkansas River, Little Rock, Ark.
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second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, granting the Little Rock Bridge and Terminal Railway Company authority to construct and maintain a bridge and approaches thereto over the Arkansas River at a point on said river at or near the city of Little Rock, in the State of Arkansas, which Act has expired by limitation, be, and is hereby, revived and reenacted.
Sec. 2.
That section seven of the said Act be amended so as to read as follows:
“Sec. 7.
That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction
Commencement and completion.
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of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety six; and all the benefits of this Act shall inure and belong to the Little Rock Bridge and Terminal Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of Arkansas, its successors or assigns: Provided,
Proviso.
Navigation not to be obstructed.
That the navigation of the Arkansas River shall not be obstructed by false work during the construction of said bridge.”
Approved, May 4, 1896.