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Volume 45

Public Law 70–276

Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission of the State of Louisiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Atchafalaya River at or near Melville, Louisiana.

Approved March 29, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

Granting the consent of Congress to the Louisiana Highway Commission of the State of Louisiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Atchafalaya River at or near Melville, Louisiana.

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 granted to the Louisiana Highway Commission of the State of Louisiana to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Atchafalaya River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near Melville,

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

Louisiana, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906.

Sec. 2.

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

Approved, March 29, 1928.

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