Volume 53
Public Law 76–504
Granting the consent of Congress to the Secretary of the Interior, the State of Washington, and the Great Northern Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate either a combined highway and railroad bridge or two separate bridges across the Columbia River, at or near Kettle Falls, Washington.
Approved August 7, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
Granting the consent of Congress to the Secretary of the Interior, the State of Washington, and the Great Northern Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate either a combined highway and railroad bridge or two separate bridges across the Columbia River, at or near Kettle Falls, Washington.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the consent of
Columbia River. Bridge authorized across, at Kettle Falls, Wash.
Congress is hereby granted to the Secretary of the Interior, the State of Washington, the Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, and their successors and assigns, jointly or separately, to construct, maintain, and operate either a combined highway and railroad bridge or two separate bridges, one to be a highway bridge and one a railroad bridge, across the Columbia River at a point or points suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Kettle Falls, and between Ferry County and Stevens County, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of the 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.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby
Amendment.
expressly reserved.
Approved, August 7, 1939.