Chapter 365. Granting the consent of Congress to the Delaware State Highway Department to construct a bridge across the canal near Rehoboth, Delaware June 7, 1924.[[H
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CHAP. 365.— An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the Delaware State Highway Department to construct a bridge across the canal near Rehoboth, Delaware June 7, 1924.[[H. R. 9515](/us/bill/68/hr/9515).][[Public, No. 287](/us/68/pl/287).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Rehoboth and Delaware Bays waterway canal.Delaware may bridge, at Rehoboth, Del. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Delaware State Highway Department and its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and the approaches thereto across the canal between Rehoboth Bay and the Delaware Bay, being a part of an inland waterway, partly natural and partly artificial, from Chincoteague Bay to Delaware Bay, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Rehoboth, in the county of Sussex, in the State of Delaware, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled, “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.*Proviso*.Approaches.over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, to grant permission to the said Delaware State Highway Department, its successors and assigns, under such terms and conditions as the said Secretary may deem equitable and fair to the public, to cross and occupy such public lands pertinent to the United States Canal as may be necessary for the bridge and approaches thereto.
Sec. 2. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 7, 1924.