Chapter 3543. To authorize the Back River Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the west or smaller division of the Ohio River from Wheeling Island, West Virginia to the Ohio shore
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CHAP. 3543.— An Act To authorize the Back River Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the west or smaller division of the Ohio River from Wheeling Island, West Virginia to the Ohio shore. June 25, 1906. [[S. 6146](/us/bill/59/s/6146).] [[Public, No. 295](/us/pl/59/295).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Ohio River. Back River Bridge Company may bridge, at Wheeling, W. Va. That, the Baek River Bridge Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of West Virginia, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto, for street railway and wagon traffic and other appropriate public uses, across the west or smaller channel of the Ohio River, known as the Baek River, from a point near the southerly end of Wheeling Island, which is a part of the city of Wheeling, in the State of West Virginia, to the Ohio shore, in accordance with the provisions*Ante,* p. 84. of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.
Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, June 25, 1906.