United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/23rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 155
Chap. CLV.—An Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Potomac, and repealing all acts already passed in relation thereto.
Former acts repealed, except so much as authorized a purchase from the Washington Bridge Comp.
Act of 1832, ch. 225.
Act of 1833, ch. 65.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act providing for the purchase by the United States of the rights of the Washington Bridge Company, in the District of Columbia, and for the erection of a public bridge on the site thereof,” which passed the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the act entitled “An act in relation to the Potomac bridge,” which passed the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three be, and the same are hereby repealed, except so much of the former as authorized the purchase of the rights of the Washington Bridge Company.
Secretary of Treasury to contract for bridge similar to that formerly built.
Size of draws.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, to contract for the reconstruction, on the site of the present bridge, across the river Potomac, of a bridge, on the plan of that originally constructed there by the Washington Bridge Company: Provided, That the draw at the southern channel of the river be not less than sixty-six feet, and at the northern channel than thirty-five feet; that a space or spaces not exceeding in all, one thousand six hundred and sixty feet of the shoal or shoals, over which the present bridge passes, may be filled up by a solid embankment; in part, if convenient, of earth obtained by the dredging the river channel: And provided, also,Appropriation. That the entire cost of said embankment, and such reconstruction shall not on the whole exceed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated thereto, out of any money in the treasury not hitherto appropriated.
Claims of O. H. Dibble to be ascertained and actual loss paid, if not exceeding $20,000.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the claims of Orange H. Dibble, for labour, materials, or any other expenses upon the said bridge, be ascertained by the Secretary of the Treasury, as nearly as the same can be done, and be laid before Congress at its next session for its examination. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay him in the mean time such sum as will reimburse to him the actual loss incurred by him, in making preparation for the construction of the said bridge: Provided, The amount paid shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars, said payment to be made out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 30, 1834.