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Public Law 69–78
Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct a bridge across Pea River at Elba, Coffee County, Alabama.
Approved March 22, 1926
Statutory text
An Act
Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct a bridge across Pea River at Elba, Coffee County, Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the consent of Congress is hereby grunted to the highway department of the State of Alabama and its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Pen River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Elba, in the county of Coffee, in the State of Alabama, in
Construction.
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accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,”
Proviso.
Approval of traffic capacity required.
approved March 23, 1906: Provided, That such bridge shall not be constructed or commenced until the plans and specifications thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers as being also satisfactory from the standpoint of the volume and weight of the traffic which will pass over it.
Sec. 2.
Amendment.
That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved, March 22, 1926.