THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY FLECK, BROWN, BAKER, BEAR, BENNINGHOFF, BEYER, BRENNAN, CAUSER, CONKLIN, GEORGE, GROVE, HELM, HENNESSEY, HESS, MAJOR, MOUL, PAYNE, PICKETT, QUINN, RAPP, ROCK, ROHRER, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, STERN, STEVENSON, VULAKOVICH AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 13, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 13, 2009  

AN ACT

Designating the bridge carrying U.S. Route 522 over the Aughwick

Creek in Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, as the Queen

Aliquippa Bridge.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Queen Aliquippa Bridge.

(a)  Declaration of policy.--The General Assembly finds and

declares as follows:

(1)  Queen Aliquippa was a leader of the Seneca Tribe of

American Indians in the 18th century.

(2)  She was an ally to the British forces during the

French and Indian War and was mentioned in the journal of

George Washington, who was leading British forces against the

French at this time.

(3)  She died in December 1754 in the Aughwick Valley of

Huntingdon County.

(b)  Designation.--The bridge carrying U.S. Route 522 over

the Aughwick Creek in Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, shall

be designated as the Queen Aliquippa Bridge.

(c)  Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall place

appropriate signs at both ends of the bridge designated in

subsection (b).

Section 2.  Effective date.

This act shall take effect in 60 days.