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PRINTER'S NO.     3121
                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 2306
                                                Session of
                                                  2024
     INTRODUCED BY MARSHALL, MAY 20, 2024
     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 20, 2024
                                     AN ACT
 Designating a bridge carrying the Pennsylvania Turnpike Mainline
    Westbound over the Beaver River at mile marker 13.2 as the
    Colonel Matthew S. Quay Memorial Bridge.
    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 hereby enacts as follows:
 Section 1.     Colonel Matthew S. Quay Memorial Bridge.
    (a)     Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
 follows:
          (1)   Matthew Stanley Quay was born September 30, 1833, in
    Dillsburg, York County.
          (2)   He attended the Beaver and Indiana Academies and
    graduated in 1850 from Jefferson College, now Washington and
    Jefferson College.
          (3)   Colonel Quay became Colonel of the 134th
    Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War
    from 1861 to 1862.
          (4)   For his bravery, Colonel Quay was awarded the Medal
    of Honor at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in
    December 1862.
           (5)   During his life, Colonel Quay was a dedicated public
    servant, serving as the Prothonotary of Beaver County in
    1865, the personal secretary to Governor Andrew Curtin in
    1861, a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    from 1865 to 1868, the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the
    Philadelphia County Recorder and Pennsylvania State Treasurer
    in 1885 and was elected to the United States Senate from 1887
    through 1899 and 1901 through 1904, representing
    Pennsylvania.
           (6)   Colonel Quay died on May 28, 1904, in Beaver County.
    (b)    Designation.--The bridge carrying the Pennsylvania
 Turnpike Mainline Westbound over the Beaver River at mile marker
 13.2 is designated as the Colonel Matthew S. Quay Memorial
 Bridge.
    (c)    Signs.--The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission shall erect
 appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to traffic
 on the bridge.
 Section 2.      Effective date.
    This act shall take effect January 1, 2027.
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