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Volume 39

Public Law 64–50

Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Lowell, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, to construct a bridge across the Merrimack River.

Approved March 20, 1916

Statutory text

AN ACT

Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Lowell, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, to construct a bridge across the Merrimack River.

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

That the consent of Congress

Merrimack River.

Lowell, Mass., may bridge.

is hereby granted to the city of Lowell, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, a municipal corporation, and its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Merrimack River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, to replace the present Pawtucket Bridge, so called, and at or near the point at which said Pawtucket Bridge crosses said river, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

“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

Amendment.

expressly reserved.

Approved, March 20, 1916.

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