Chapter 389. To authorize the Port of New York Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Hudson River between the States of New York and New Jersey
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CHAP. 389.— An Act To authorize the Port of New York Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Hudson River between the States of New York and New Jersey. March 2, 1925.[[S. 4178](/us/bill/68/s/4178).][[Public, No. 620](/us/pl/68/620).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Hudson River.Port of Now York Authority may bridge, New York to Fort Lee, N.J. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Port of New York Authority to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Hudson River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, and connecting a point between One hundred and seventieth Street and One hundred and eighty-fifth Street, borough of Manhattan, Construction.New York City, with a point approximately opposite thereto in the borough of Fort Lee, Bergen County, New Jersey, in accordance Vol. 34, p. 84.with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906.
Sec. 2. Time of construction. Construction of the said bridge shall be commenced within three years and it shall be completed within seven years from the date of the passage of this Act, and in default thereof the authority hereby granted shall cease and be null and void. Sec. 3. Amendment. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 2, 1925.