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they may fix and appoint, of which election thirty days notice shall be given in a news-
paper published in the City of Kansas.

§ 4. The said Company shall have the same power to condemn and acquire title to
lands necessary for the construction of said bridge and for the approaches to it from
public highways, and the same power to take materials from lands in the neighborhood
for the construction thereof, compensating the owners thereof, and the proceedings
therein shall be conducted in the same manner as is provided in the Act to authorize the
formation of railroad associations and to regulate the same, approved December 13,
1855, and the said Company shall also have the right to protect the banks of the river
above and below the bridge, so far as may be necessary to keep the channel within the
openings of the bridge for the passage of vessels, and for that purpose to acquire, con-
demn, and take lands and materials in the manner aforesaid.

§ 5. The said bridge shall be constructed so as not to prevent the passage of steam-
boats or other vessels in the navigation of said river, and said bridge may be built so as
to admit a railroad track for the passage of cars and trains, as well as for a common
wagon way, and for a foot passenger way. It shall be properly attended and managed,
so as to afford safe and easy passage for all persons and property, and every railroad
train drawn by steam power shall, on approaching said bridge, stop its speed and come
_ to a stand-still on the bank before entering upon the passage of the bridge.

§ 6. When said bridge is completed the said Company shall be entitled to demand
and receive tolls for crossing the same, and to fix the rates of toll, of which a schedule
shall be kept conspicuously posted at each end of the bridge, which rates shall be as
follows, and shall never exceed the same, to wit: For each foot passenger, five cents ;
for every person on horseback, twenty cents; for every gig, buggy, or other travelling
carriage, drawn by one animal, forty cents ; for every cart o1 wagon drawn by one animal,
forty cents ; for every wagon or cart drawn by two animals, sixty cents ; for every cart or
wagon drawn by three animals, eighty cents ; for every cart or wagon drawn by four
animals, one hundred cents; for every cart or wagon drawn by more than four animals,
ten cents extra for each animal ; for every pleasure carriage drawn by two animals, sixty
cents; for every pleasure carriage drawn by four animals or niore, one hundred cents ;
for each head of cattle, horses, mules, or other working animal, ten cents ; for each head
of sheep or swine, three cents; and said bridge company may permit any railroad com-
pany to extend their railroad track over said bridge upon such terms as may be agreed
upon by said bridge company and such railroad companies.

§ 7. The corporation hereby created shall be exempt from the operation of sections
six, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, eighteen and twenty, of article one of “An Act con-
cerning Corporations,’ approved November 23, 1855.

§ 8. For the purposes of taxation, all property owned by this corporation shall be taken