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Volume 45

Public Law 70–79

Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Duluth, Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Duluth Ship Canal.

Approved February 16, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

Granting the consent of Congress to the city of Duluth, Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Duluth Ship Canal.

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 city of Duluth, Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free bridge and approaches thereto across the Duluth Ship Canal, at or near the site of the existing suspended car transfer, or aerial ferry constructed under an Act of Congress dated February 7, 1902, in accordance with the provisions

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, and for that purpose to locate the towers and approaches of said structure on the lands of the United States pertaining to the said canal, as now occupied under a certain revocable license issued by the Secretary of War to the city of Duluth, Minnesota, under date of September 6, 1901, now on file in the War Department: Provided, That the city of

Proviso.

Structural, etc., changes to be made by the city.

Duluth, Minnesota, shall make any changes in the said structure, and any changes in the towers and approaches located on said lands of the United States, which the Secretary of War may from time to time prescribe.

Sec. 2.

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

Amendment.

expressly reserved.

Approved, February 16, 1928.

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