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Public Law 55–23

To amend an Act entitled “An Act declaring a certain bridge across the Tallahatchie River, in Tallahatchie County, State of Mississippi, a lawful structure, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

Approved February 15, 1898

Statutory text

An Act

To amend an Act entitled “An Act declaring a certain bridge across the Tallahatchie River, in Tallahatchie County, State of Mississippi, a lawful structure, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

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

That the time fixed by section

Bridge, Tallahatchie River, Miss.

seven of an Act entitled “An Act declaring a certain bridge across the Tallahatchie River, in Tallahatchie County, State of Mississippi, a lawful structure, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, within which the bridge authorized by that Act to be constructed across the Tallahatchie River, in the State of Mississippi, was required to be completed, be, and the same is hereby, extended until the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight;

Extension of time for completion.

and if said bridge shall be completed by that date all of the provisions of the Act aforesaid shall be and remain in full force and effect, notwithstanding the failure to complete the said bridge within the time therein fixed.

Approved, .

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