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Volume 43 · 23

Public Law 68–56

To authorize the Park-Wood Lumber Company to construct two bridges across the United States Canal which connects Apalachicola River and Saint Andrews Bay, Florida.

Approved March 14, 1924

Statutory text

An Act

To authorize the Park-Wood Lumber Company to construct two bridges across the United States Canal which connects Apalachicola River and Saint Andrews Bay, Florida.

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

That the Park-Wood Lumber Company, a corporation organizing and existing under the laws of the State of New Hampshire, its successors and assigns, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate two bridges and approaches thereto across the United States Canal which connects Apalachicola River and Saint Andrews Bay, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in the county of

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

Calhoun, in the State of Florida, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges

Proviso.

Right of way for approaches.

over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906: Provided, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, to grant permission to the said Park-Wood Lumber Company, under such terms and conditions as the said Secretary may deem equitable and fair to the public, to cross and occupy such public lands pertinent to the United States Canal as may be necessary for the bridge and approaches thereto.

Sec. 2.

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

Amendment.

expressly reserved.

Approved, March 14, 1924.

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