Chapter 25. To authorize the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, and such other corporation or individuals as may be associated with it, to construct a bridge across the portion of the Delaware River between the mainland of the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, and Petty Island in said county
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CHAP. 25.— An Act To authorize the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, and such other corporation or individuals as may be associated with it, to construct a bridge across the portion of the Delaware River between the mainland of the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, and Petty Island in said county and State. January 30, 1917.[[S. 7748](/us/bill/64/s/7748).][[Public, No. 298](/us/pl/64/298).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Delaware River.United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company may bridge, Petty Island, N.
J. That the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, a corporation created and organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey, and such other corporation or individuals, if any, as shall be associated with said company for the purpose, their successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the intervening portion of the Delaware River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, from the mainland of Camden County, in the State of New Jersey, to Petty Island, in said Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.county and State, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, and that said bridge may be either for railroad purposes alone, or in part for railroad and in part for highway purposes, at the option of said United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company.
Sec. 2. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, January 30, 1917.