Volume 52
Public Law 75–487
To amend section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the county of Pierce, a legal subdivision of the State of Washington, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across Puget Sound, State of Washington, at or near a point commonly known as ‘The Narrows’ ”, and to extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of such bridge.
Approved June 16, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the county of Pierce, a legal subdivision of the State of Washington, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across Puget Sound, State of Washington, at or near a point commonly known as ‘The Narrows’ ”, and to extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of such bridge.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of an Act entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the county of Pierce, a legal subdivision of the State of Washington, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across Puget Sound, State of Washington, at or near a point commonly known as ‘The
Narrows’”, approved May 28, 1934, be amended to read as follows:
“Section 1.
That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the county of Pierce, a legal subdivision of the State of Washington, or to Washington Toll Bridge Authority, a legal agency or the State of Washington, to construct, maintain, and operate, a bridge and approaches thereto across Puget Sound, State of Washington, at or near a point commonly known as ‘The Narrows’, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in accordance with the provisions
of an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters’, approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act.”
Sec. 2.
That the times for commencing and completing the construction of such bridge, heretofore extended by Acts of Congress
approved August. 27, 1935, and July 5, 1937, are hereby further extended one and three years, respectively, from July 5, 1938.
Sec. 3.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved, June 16, 1938.