Chapter 41. To amend “An Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Hast River, between the city of New York and Long Island,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven
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CHAP. 41.— An Act To amend “An Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Hast River, between the city of New York and Long Island,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.March 14, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,East River, N. Y.Height of bridge may be reduced. That section three of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the East River,between the city of New York and Long Island,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, is hereby amended so Vol. 24. p. 46.as to read as follows:
" Sec. 3. That such bridge shall be constructed at right angles withConstruction. the channels of said river, the piers or abutments to be constructed on Height.the land side of the harbor or pierhead lines established by law. The lowest part of the superstructure of such bridge, over the entire width of waterways, shall not be less than one hundred and thirty-live feet above mean high water of spring tides. " Approved, March 14, 1894.