Volume 73 · 197
Public Law 86–86
To designate the bridge to be constructed over the Potomac River near Fourteenth Street in the District of Columbia, under the Act of July 16, 1946, as the George Mason Memorial Bridge, and for other purposes.
Approved July 13, 1959
Statutory text
AN ACT
To designate the bridge to be constructed over the Potomac River near Fourteenth Street in the District of Columbia, under the Act of July 16, 1946, as the George Mason Memorial Bridge, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the bridge to be constructed over the Potomac River from a point near Fourteenth Street in the District of Columbia to a point in Virginia, under authority of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing and directing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to construct two four-lane bridges to replace the existing Fourteenth Street or Highway Bridge across the Potomac River, and for other purposes”, approved July 16, 1946 (60 Stat. 566), shall be known and designated as the “George Mason Memorial Bridge”. Any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States in which such bridge is referred to shall be held to refer to such bridge as the “George Mason Memorial Bridge”.
Sec. 2.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall—
place on the George Mason Memorial Bridge a name plaque of suitable and appropriate design; and
in connection with the opening of such bridge to the public, provide for suitable ceremonies honoring George Mason, the American statesman of the Revolutionary War period from the State of Virginia, who drafted the renowned Virginia Declaration of Rights which became the basis for the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Approved July 13, 1959.