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Volume 39

Public Law 64–7

Extending the time for completion of the bridge across the Delaware River, authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company, or their successors, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River,” approved the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and twelve.

Approved December 27, 1916

Statutory text

An Act

Extending the time for completion of the bridge across the Delaware River, authorized by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company, or their successors, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River,” approved the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and twelve.

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

That the time for the completion

Delaware River.

Time extended for bridging, by Pennsylvania Railroad Company, etc., at Trenton, N. J.

Vol. 37, p. 492.

Vol. 38, p. 807 amended.

of the bridge now in course of construction across the Delaware River, which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company, or their successors, were authorized to construct, maintain, and operate by an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company, or their successors, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River,” approved the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and twelve, be, and the same is hereby, extended for a period of three years from the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and sixteen: Provided, That in all other respects said

Proviso.

Construction, etc.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

bridge shall be completed and shall be maintained and operated in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.

Sec. 2.

That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby

Amendment.

expressly reserved.

Approved, December 27, 1916.

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