Chapter 21. To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Niagara River, in the town of Lewiston, in the county of Niagara and State of New York
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CHAP. 21.— An Act To authorize the construction of a bridge across the Niagara River, in the town of Lewiston, in the county of Niagara and State of New York.January 28, 1915.[[S. 6121](/us/bill/63/s/6121).][[Public, No. 240](/us/pl/63/240).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Ontario-Niagara Niagara River.Ontario-Niagara Connecting Bridge Company may bridge, at Lewiston, N. Y.Connecting Bridge Company, a corporation created by the laws of the State of New York, being chapter four hundred and twenty of the laws of nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and necessary approaches thereto across the Niagara River at a point suitable to public interests in the town of Lewiston, in the county of Niagara, State of New York, south of the southern boundary of the bridge and property of the Lewiston Connecting Bridge Company, to some point in Canada, on the west bank of said river, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: *Provided*, That the offices of the Fine *Provisos*,Eine Arts Commission to consider plana, etc.Arts Commission shall be obtained in connection with the consideration of the plans of said bridge, and that all power cables shall be permitted to cross the said bridge under equal rates for the privilege: *And provided further*, That the Ontario-Niagara Connecting Bridge Changes, etc.Company, or its successors or assigns, shall at its own expense make such changes and install such accessories as may be necessary to cross any navigation canal which the United States may construct in that vicinity, and which may interfere with the approaches of the bridge.
Sec. 2. That this Act shall become and be null and void if actual Time of construction.construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced before the thirty-first day of December, in the year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and completed within five years thereafter. Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment.expressly reserved. Approved, January 28, 1915.