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Volume 45

Public Law 70–74

Granting the consent of Congress to The Pennsylvania Railroad Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Allegheny River.

Approved February 16, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

Granting the consent of Congress to The Pennsylvania Railroad Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Allegheny River.

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

That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Allegheny River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at Oil City, county of Venango, State of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

Post, p. 1321.

of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906.

Sec. 2.

The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the

Right to sell, etc., conferred.

rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, and any corporation to which such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which shall require the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise is hereby authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation.

Sec. 3.

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

Amendment.

expressly reserved.

Approved, February 16, 1928.

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