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Volume 32

Public Law 57–237

To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Pittsburg and Mansfield Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River.”

Approved March 21, 1902

Statutory text

An Act

To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Pittsburg and Mansfield Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River.”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section two of the Act

Monongahela River.

Pittsburg and Mansfield Railroad Company’s bridge at Pittsburg.

Vol. 28, p. 702.

Vol. 30, p. 330.

Vol. 31, p. 846.

entitled “An Act to authorize the Pittsburg and Mansfield Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, amended by an Act approved March nineteen to eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and amended by an Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

“Sec. 2.

That any bridge built under the provisions of this Act

Height may be reduced.

shall not be in any case of less elevation than seventy feet from the level of the water at pool full in said river to the bottom chord of said bridge, nor shall the main span be of less than seven hundred and fifty feet in length in the clear, and the piers of the bridge shall be parallel with the current of the river, and the main span shall be over the main channel of the river at ordinary water.”

Approved, March 21, 1902.

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