Volume 28 · 282
Public Law 53–285
To authorize a bridge across the Perdido River between the States of Florida and Alabama.
Approved August 13, 1894
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize a bridge across the Perdido River between the States of Florida and Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the county authorities of the counties of Escambia, Florida, and Baldwin, Alabama, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Secretary of War, an iron or wooden bridge for free use by the public at or near Holman’s ferry across the Perdido River, between the States of Alabama and Florida, and to jointly maintain and regulate the same under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon between the said counties.
Sec. 2.
That said bridge shall be begun within one year and completed
Commencement and completion.
within three years from the date of the approval of this Act.
Sec. 3.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly
Amendment, etc.
reserved.
Approved, August 13, 1894.