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Volume 45 · 1078

Public Law 70–65

To legalize a bridge across the Potomac River at or near Paw Paw, West Virginia.

Approved January 14, 1929

Statutory text

An Act

To legalize a bridge across the Potomac River at or near Paw Paw, West Virginia.

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

That the bridge

Potomac River.

Bridge across, at Paw Paw, W. Va., by West Virginia, Maryland, etc., legalized.

now being constructed across the Potomac River at or near Paw Paw, West Virginia, by the State of West Virginia and the State of Maryland, or any county or counties thereof, if completed in accordance with plans accepted by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War, as providing suitable facilities for navigation and operated as a free highway bridge, shall be a lawful structure, and shall be subject to the conditions and limitations of the Act entitled

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

“An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, other than those requiring the approval of plans by the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers before the bridge is commenced.

Sec. 2.

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

Approved, January 14, 1929.

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