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.
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(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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