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 three years after the completion of such bridge the Secretary of Wat may investigate the actual cost of such bridge, and for such purposes the said Vicksburg Bridge and Terminal Company, its successors and assigns, shall make available to the Secretary of War all of the records in connection with the financing and construction thereof. This findings of the Secretary of War as to such actual original cost shall be conclusive, subject only to review in a court of equity for fraud or gross mistake.

Sec. 7. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the said Vicksburg Bridge and Terminal Company, its successors or assigns, and any corporation to which such fights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation.

Sec 8. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

That the consent may bridge, of Congress is hereby granted to the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, Incorporated, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, between the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and a point opposite Alexander County, Illinois, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters" approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act.