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Volume 39

Public Law 64–15

Granting the consent of Congress to J. P. Jones and others to construct one or more bridges across the Chattahoochee River between the counties of Coweta and Carroll, in the State of Georgia.

Approved January 24, 1916

Statutory text

AN ACT

Granting the consent of Congress to J. P. Jones and others to construct one or more bridges across the Chattahoochee River between the counties of Coweta and Carroll, in the State of Georgia.

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

That the consent of Congress

Chattahoochee River.

J. P. Jones, etc., may bridge, between Coweta and Carroll Counties, Ga.

is hereby granted to J. P. Jones, of the county of Coweta, or to the county of Coweta, or to the county of Carroll, all of the State of Georgia, acting jointly or separately, and their successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges and approaches thereto across the Chattahoochee River at a point or points suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Jones’s ferry, also known as the old Moore ferry, or at Strickland’s ferry, or at both, between the

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

counties of Coweta and Carroll, in the State of Georgia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty- third, nineteen hundred and six.

Sec. 2.

That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, January 24, 1916.

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