Chapter 472. Granting the consent of Congress to the construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande
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CHAP. 472.— An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the construction of a bridge across the Rio Grande. March 3, 1925.[[H. R. 11818](/us/bill/68/hr/11818).][[Public, No. 590](/us/pl/68/590).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Rio Grande.W. J. Stahmann, etc., may bridge, near Tornillo, Tex. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to W. J. Stahmann, Edgar D. Brown, L. N. Shafer, and associates, their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge, and approaches thereto, across the Rio Grande, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near a point two miles south of the town of Tornillo, Texas, in the lower San Elizario Grant, in the county of El Paso, on the American side Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.of the river, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable Consent of Mexico required.waters,” approved March 23, 1906, such construction to be made only with the consent and approval of the Republic of Mexico. 1215 Sec. 2.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expresslyAmendment. reserved. Approved, March 3, 1925.