Chapter 116. To authorize the Cambridge Bridge Commission to construct a drawless bridge across the Charles River, in the State of Massachusetts
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CHAP. 116.— An Act To authorize the Cambridge Bridge Commission to construct a drawless bridge across the Charles River, in the State of Massachusetts. March 29, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Cambridge Bridge Cambridge Bridge Commission may bridge Charles River, Mass. Commission be, and hereby is, authorized to construct a drawless bridge across the Charles River, in the State of Massachusetts, between the cities of Boston and Cambridge, as provided for by chapter four hundred and sixty-seven of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and chapter one hundred and eighty of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, of the legislature of the State of Massachusetts; 54 said bridge to be at least twenty-six feet above mean high water over the main ship channel, and the piers and other obstructions to the flow of the tide to be constructed in such form and in such places as the *Proviso*.
Compensation to owners of wharf property, etc. Secretary of War shall approve: *Provided*, That the State of Massachusetts, within a reasonable time after the completion of said bridge, by legislative enactment, shall provide for adequate compensation to the owner or owners of wharf property now used as such on said river above said bridge, for damages, if any, sustained by said property by reason of interference with access by water to said property now and hitherto enjoyed, because of the construction of said bridge without a draw.
Approved, March 29, 1900.