Chapter 130. To authorize the counties of Allegheny and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, to change the site of the joint county bridge which now crosses the Monongahela River. at Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and to construct a new bridge across said river in the place of said present bridge upon a ne
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CHAP. 130.— An Act To authorize the counties of Allegheny and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, to change the site of the joint county bridge which now crosses the Monongahela River. at Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and to construct a new bridge across said river in the place of said present bridge upon a new site. April 3, 1908.[[H. R. 13448](/us/bill/70/hr/13448).][[Public, No. 86.](/us/pl/70/86)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the counties of AlleghenyMonongahela River.Allegheny and Washington counties, Pa., may bridge. and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a joint county bridge and approaches thereto across the Monongahela River at Monongahela City, in the State aforesaid, upon a site located at a distance ofLocation. about one thousand feet down the stream of said river from the existing bridge across the same, which connects Monongahela City, in Washington County, with Forward Township, in Allegheny County, and is now maintained by the said two counties jointly for the uses and purposes of general public travel.
The said bridge hereby authorized shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the ActVol. 34, p. 84.Removal of old bridge. entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third nineteen hundred and 57 six, and upon its construction shall take the place of and be substituted for the aforesaid existing bridge, which shall thereupon be torn down and removed: *Provided*, That the new bridge hereby authorized shall*Provisos*.Time of completion of new bridge and removal of old one. be completed within eighteen months from date of approval of this Act, and the existing bridge shall be completely removed within six months thereafter: *Provided further*, That this Act shall not be construedRestrictions. as nullifying the orders of the Secretary of War, issued under date of October tenth, nineteen hundred and six, to the commissioners of the counties of Allegheny and Washington, Pennsylvania, and the Williamsport Bridge Company, requiring the alteration of the existing bridge, but the said orders shall remain in full force and effect, and unless the new bridge is built and the present bridge is removed within the time specified in this Act, the aforesaid parties shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in section eighteen of the river andPenalties.Vol. 30, p. 1153. harber Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for failure to comply with the lawful orders of the Secretary of War.
Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, April 3, 1908.