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Volume 28 · 45

Public Law 53–45

To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge at or near Sioux City, Iowa,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by Acts of April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

Approved March 24, 1894

Statutory text

An Act

To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge at or near Sioux City, Iowa,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by Acts of April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section seven of an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge across the Missouri River at or near Sioux City, Iowa,” approved

Vol. 25, p. 849; Vol. 26, p. 79: Vol. 27, p. 434.

Post, pp. 46, 221.

March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge across the Missouri River at or near Sioux City, Iowa,’” approved April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and as amended by an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act authorizing the construction of a high wagon bridge across the Missouri River at or near Sioux City, Iowa,” approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be amended so as to read as follows:

“Sec. 7.

That this Act shall be null and void if the construction of

Time for construction extended.

said bridge shall not be commenced within two years after the date of approving this Act and be finished on or before March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.”

Approved, March 24, 1894.

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