Chapter 766. To provide for the construction of a bridge to replace the M Street Bridge over Rock Creek, in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 766.— An Act To provide for the construction of a bridge to replace the M Street Bridge over Rock Creek, in the District of Columbia.July 3, 1926.[[S. 3453](/us/bill/69/s/3453).][[Public, No. 487](/us/pl/69/487).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.New bridge across Rock Creek at M Street, authorized. That in order to provide sufficient clearance for the proposed park drive in the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, and to enable traffic to use M Street northwest, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Streets, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to construct a new steel-girder bridge to replace the bridge in the line of M Street over Rock Creek, which bridge shall have a roadway forty feet wide and two footways eachDimensions, etc. nine feet wide, and shall include proper facilities for carrying and supporting water main and other underground construction: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Consultation with Fine Arts Commission.
That the Commission of Fine Arts shall be consulted as to the architectural design of the proposed bridge and its approaches. Sec. 2. That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, payableAmount for expenses.*Post*, p. 1309. in like manner as other appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia, the sum of $250,060, and the said commissioners are authorized to expend therefrom such sum or sums as may be necessary for personal services, engineering, and incidental expenses.
Approved, July 3, 1926.