An Act to designate the bridge to be constructed over the Potomac River in the vicinity of Jones Point, Va., as the ""Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge.""
PL 84-535 (H.R.8130), enacted 05/22/1956

70 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 636-MAY 22, 1956 
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Virginia, across a certain portion of the District of Columbia, to a 
point in Maryland, together with bridge approaches on property 
owned by the United States in the State of Virginia: Provided^ That 
nothing in this section or in other sections of this Act shall be con-
strued as authorizing or as requiring the Secretary to construct any 
ingress or egress approaches to the bridge which will directly connect 
with or empty into those streets within the corporate limits of the city 
of Alexandria, Virginia, which are east of Mount Vernon Boulevard 
(now known as Washington Street) and are now known as Potomac 
Street, South Lee Street, South Fairfax Street, South Koyal Street, 
South Pitt Street, South St. Asaph Street, Green Street, and Jefferson 
Street. 
"(b) The bridge shall be of deck girder construction, with a mov-
able span of the double-leaf bascule type over the navigable channel 
liaving horizontal clearance of approximately one hundred and fifty 
feet and vertical clearance above mean low water of approximately 
forty feet, and shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions 
of subsection (b) of section 502 of the "General Bridge Act of 1946", 
approved August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 847), as amended, and subject 
to the conditions and limitations in this title. 
"(c) The Secretary shall request the recommendations and sug-
gestions of the National Capital Planning Commission relative to the 
design of such bridge and approaches and shall consult with the Sec-
retary of the Interior with respect to all plans for overpasses, ap-
proaches, interchanges, and connecting roads at both ends of the bridge 
which affect lands and facilities administered or authorized to be 
administered by the Department of the Interior. 
"(d) Upon the completion of the bridge project all lands acquired 
pursuant to this Act that are located within the authorized boundaries 
of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, with the exception of 
such portions thereof that shall be actually occupied by the bridge 
structure and main approaches leading thereto and the bridge itself, 
shall be under the administrative control and jurisdiction of the 
Secretary of the Interior for purposes of the Parkway." 
SEC. 2. Section 204 of the said title I I is hereby amended by 
inserting, immediately before the period at the end thereof, the words 
"and that such bridge will be maintained and operated by the said 
States". 
SEC. 3. There shall be transferred to the Department of Commerce 
so much of the records, property, and funds of the Department of the 
Interior as may be appropriate by reason of the enactment of the 
foregoing provisions of this Act. 
Such measures and dispositions 
as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary 
to effectuate the said transfers shall be carried out in such manner 
as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate. 
Approved May 22, 1956. 
Approaches. 
Structure. 
33 u s e 525. 
D e s i g n , reconir 
mendations. 
J u r i s d i c t i o n , 
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lands. 
68 Stat. 964. 
Transfer of rec-
ords, etc. 
Public Law 535 
CHAPTER 317 
AN ACT 
To designate the bridge to be constructed over the Potomac River in the vicinity 
of Jones Point, Virginia, as the "Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge". 
May 22, 1956 
[H. R. 8130] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the bridge 
to be constructed over the Potomac River from a point at or near 
Jones Point, Virginia, across a certain portion of the District of 
Columbia, to a point in Maryland, under tlie provisions of title I I of 
Woodrow Wilson 
Memorial Bridge. 
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PUBLIC LAW 53©-MAY 24, 1956 
[70 ST AT* 
68 Stat. 963. 
the Act entitled "An Act to authorize and direct the construction of 
bridges over the Potomac River, and for other purposes", approved 
August 30, 1954 (68 Stat. 961; Public Law 704, Eighty-third Con-
gress), shall be known and designated hereafter as the "Woodrow 
Wilson Memorial Bridge" in honor of Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-
eighth President of the United States. Any law, regulation, map, 
document, record, or other paper of the United States in which such 
bridge is referred to shall be held to refer to such bridge as the "Wood-
row Wilson Memorial Bridge". 
Approved May 22, 1956. 
Public Law 536 
CHAPTER 319 
May 24, 1956 
AN ACT 
—P'3254] 
IJIQ authorize the county of Custer, State of Montana, to convey certain lands 
to the United States. 
Custe r County, 
Mont. 
Conveyance. 
M i l e s 
Mont. 
C i ty. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the county of 
Custer, State of Montana, may, notwithstanding the provisions of 
the Act of April 15, 1924 (^43 Stat. 97), convey by quitclaim deed to 
the United States of America, for acceptance by the Secretary of the 
Interior under existing law, the following tract of land: 
That portion of tract "C" as shown on the supplemental plat of 
townships 7 and 8 north, range 47 east, principal meridian, Montana, 
accepted by the assistant commissioner of the General Land Office on 
March 23, 1927, which is described as follows: Beginning at a point 
on the south boundary of tract "C", 669.23 feet north 73 degrees 10 
minutes west of corner numbered 11 of tract "C", which point is 80 
feet south 28 degrees 08 minutes west of the fair grounds boundary 
fence; thence north 61 degrees 52 minutes west, parallel with and 80 
feet from the fair grounds boundary fence, a distance of 1,280.123 
feet to the west boundary of tract "C"; thence south 16 degrees 50 
minutes west along the west boundary of tract "C", a distance of 
250.84 feet to corner numbered 3 of tract "C"; thence south 73 degrees 
10 minutes east along the south boundary of tract "C", a distance of 
1,255.33 feet to the place of beginning, containing 3.614 acres, more 
or less. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell to 
the city of Miles City, Montana, under the terms and conditions of 
sections 2, 3, and 6 of the Act of June 16, 1950 (64 Stat. 233), as 
amended, any portion of the lands conveyed to the United States 
under section 1 of this Act which the Secretary determines is excess 
to the needs of the Department of the Interior. 
Approved May 24, 1956. 
May 24, 1956 
[S. J. Res. 166] 
Public Law 537 
CHAPTER 320 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To designate the dam and reservoir to be constructed on the Lower Cumberland 
River, Kentucky, as Barkley Dam and Lake Barkley, respectively. 
Whereas the Congress is keenly aware that the late Senator Alben 
William Barkley was so devoted to the people of the United States 
that he dedicated his life in unselfish public service to secure peace, 
to provide happiness, and to preserve freedom for the citizens of 
the United States, rising to the positions of Representative, Senator, 
and Vice President in said service: and