Chapter 72. to Incorporate the Niagara River Bridge Company” passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty one, or any Act or Acts of the said Legislature now in force amending the same, is hereby declared to be a lawful structure and an established Post Route for the mail of the U
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CHAP. 72.— An act to declare the Cantilever Bridge constructed by the Niagara River Bridge Company across the Niagara River a Post Route.June 7, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Cantilever bridge over Niagara River declared a lawful structure and post-route. That the Cantilever Bridge and its appurtenances which has been constructed across the Niagara River from a point on the right bank of the Niagara River between the Falls of the Niagara and the mountain ridge above Lewiston, to a point 40 in Canada on the left bank of the said River, in pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York entitled “An Act to Incorporate the Niagara River Bridge Company” passed on the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty one, or any Act or Acts of the said Legislature now in force amending the same, is hereby declared to be a lawful structure and an established Post Route for the mail of the United States.
Received by the President, May 27, 1884.