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Public Law 69–73
Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct a bridge across the Coosa River near Childersburg on the Childersburg-Birmingham road between Shelby and Talladega Counties, 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 the Coosa River near Childersburg on the Childersburg-Birmingham road between Shelby and Talladega Counties, Alabama.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the consent
Coosa River.
Alabama may bridge, near Childersburg.
of Congress is hereby granted 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 Coosa River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Childersburg, on the Childersburg-Birmingham road between Shelby and Talladega Counties, in the State of Alabama, in accordance
Construction.
Vol. 34, p. 84.
with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March
Proviso.
Approval of traffic capacity required.
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.
That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved, March 22, 1926.