Public Law 64–459

That the consent of Congress

Niagara River.

W. H. Crosby, etc., may bridge, Buffalo, N. Y.

is hereby granted to W. H. Crosby; W. H. Andrews; E. G. Connette; Daniel Good; Henry May; Robert C. Gaupp; Edward Kener, junior; William F. MacGlashan; Eugene L. Falk; John W. Robinson; John M. Willys; Oliver Cabana, junior; Conrad E. Wettlaufer; H. A. Hurt; George J. Meyer; Myron S. Hall; John Lord O’Brian; Frank S. McGraw; and William A. Morgan, and their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Niagara River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, within or near the city limits of Buffalo, in the county of Erie, in the State of New York, in accordance with

Construction.

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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: Provided, That subject to the provisions

Proviso.

May substitute tunnel.

of this Act the Secretary of War may permit the persons herein named to construct a tunnel or tunnels under said river in lieu of the bridge herein authorized, in accordance with the foregoing Act approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, so far as the same may be applicable.

Sec. 2.

That this Act shall be null and void unless the construction

Time for construction.

of said bridge or tunnels is commenced within two years and completed within five years from the date of approval hereof.

Sec. 3.

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

Amendment.

expressly reserved.