Chapter 719. To authorize and direct the survey, construction, and maintenance of a memorial highway to connect Mount Vernon, in the State of Virginia, with the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington
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Chap. 719: To authorize and direct the survey, construction, and maintenance of a memorial highway to connect Mount Vernon, in the State of Virginia, with the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington. Chapter 719 45 Stat. 721 1928-05-23 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 719.— An Act To authorize and direct the survey, construction, and maintenance of a memorial highway to connect Mount Vernon, in the State of Virginia, with the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington.
May 23, 1928.[[S. 1369](/us/bill/70/s/1369).][[Public, No. 493](/us/pl/70/493).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the United Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Va.Commission directed to construct, from Mount Vernon, Va., to Arlington Memorial Bridge across Potomac River.Vol. 43, p. 671.States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington (hereinafter referred to as the commission), created by Public Resolution Numbered 38, approved December 2, 1924, be, and the same is hereby, authorized directed to take such steps as may be necessary to construct a suitable memorial highway to connect Mount Vernon, the home and burial place of George Washington, in the State of Virginia, with the south end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, now being constructed across the Potomac River at the city of Washington, District Under services of Agricultural Department.of Columbia, acting through and by utilizing the services of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and Secretary of Agriculture to cause necessary surveys.directed to cooperate with said commission in carrying out the provisions of this Act. He shall cause to be made such surveys as may be deemed necessary of the route, or routes, between the points named Commission to determine route.Plans, specifications, and estimates to be prepared.in section 1 hereof. The said commission shall determine the route on which said highway shall be constructed.
The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be prepared such plans, specifications, and estimates for the construction of said highway as may be necessary, which shall include provision for the planting of shade trees and shrubbery and for such other landscape treatment, parking, and ornamental structures as he may prescribe, such plans and specifications Contracts for construction, etc.to be subject to approval by the commission. He shall advertise for bids and enter into contracts for and supervise the work of constructing said highway.
Sec. 3. That the highway authorized to be constructed under the Width of right of way, and surfacing type, required.provisions of this Act shall have a right of way of such minimum width as the commission shall determine, and shall be constructed only of such durable type of surfacing as will adequately meet the present and probable future traffic needs and conditions thereon. Occupation of Government and District lands, authorized.The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to occupy such lands belonging to the United States or to the District of Columbia as may be necessary for the location, construction, and maintenance of the highway authorized herein.
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized Acquiring necessary lands by purchase, condemnation, gift, etc.to acquire such lands as may be necessary for the proper location, construction, and maintenance of said highway, including parking, 722by purchase, condemnation, gift, grant, dedication, devise, or otherwise, Acceptance of funds from States, etc.from any source whatsoever. The Secretary of Agriculture may accept funds from any State, county, or political subdivision of a Payment for acquired lands.State, or from any individual or association, for the purpose of aiding in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Such lands as may be acquired by purchase or condemnation may be paid for from funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act, or from funds Condemnation proceedings in Virginia subject to laws thereof.that may be donated for the purpose of aiding in carrying out the provisions hereof. Whenever it becomes necessary to acquire by subject to laws thereof, condemnation proceedings any lands in the State of Virginia for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. such proceedings Title requirements.shall conform to the laws of said State now in force in reference to Federal condemnation proceedings.
No payment shall be made for any such lands until the title thereto in the United States shall be satisfactory to the Attorney General of the United States. Maintenance by Secretary of Agriculture from annual appropriations hereby authorized Sec. 5. That after the construction of said highway, the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause the same to be properly maintained, and shall pay the cost thereof from funds to be appropriated annually for that purpose, which appropriations are hereby authorized to be Traffic regulations to be issued.made.
The Secretary of Agriculture shall have control over the vehicular and pedestrian movement on and over the highway constructed hereunder and may issue rules and regulations to govern such traffic and all uses of said highway, including limitations on the *Proviso.*Concurrent jurisdiction of Virginia not interfered with.size, kind, weight, and speed of vehicles: *Provided,* That nothing herein shall be so construed as to conflict or interfere with the concurrent jurisdiction of the State of Virginia reserved by the laws of said State now in force over property acquired therein by the United States, or with chapter 494 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, approved March 25, 1926, authorizing cooperation on the part of the State and interested subdivisions thereof in the construction of the highway herein provided for.
Annual appropriation authorized.*Post,* pp. 895, 1221. Sec. 6. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available until expended: The sum of $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928; the sum of $2,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929; the sum of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930; the sum of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931.
Employment of assistants, engineers, etc., authorized. Sec. 7. That out of the appropriations made under this Act, or Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to employ such assistants, engineers, clerks, and other persons, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, to pay the salaries of like persons regularly employed by the Government whose services may be utilized hereunder and to incur such travel and other expenses as he may deem necessary for carrying out the purpose of this Act.
Approved, May 23, 1928.
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Chapter 719
To authorize and direct the survey, construction, and maintenance of a memorial highway to connect Mount Vernon, in the State of Virginia, with the Arlington Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Washington
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