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Volume 45

Public Law 70–282

Granting the consent of Congress to Frank E. Merrill, carrying on business under the name and style of Frank E. Merrill and Company’s Algonquin Shores Realty Trust, to construct, maintain, and operate a footbridge across the Fox River.

Approved March 29, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

Granting the consent of Congress to Frank E. Merrill, carrying on business under the name and style of Frank E. Merrill and Company’s Algonquin Shores Realty Trust, to construct, maintain, and operate a footbridge across the Fox River.

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 Frank E. Merrill, carrying on business under the name and style of Frank E. Merrill and Company’s Algonquin Shores Realty Trust, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a free footbridge and approaches thereto across the Fox River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation in the County of Kane, State of Illinois, in section 3, township 42 north, range 8 east of the third principal meridian, and about one-half mile south of the south limits of Algonquin,

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

Illinois, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act.

Sec. 2.

The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to Frank E. Merrill, carrying on business under the name and style of Frank E. Merrill and Company’s Algonquin Shores Realty Trust, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns; and any party to whom such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or who shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise is hereby authorized to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such party.

Sec. 3.

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

Approved, March 29, 1928.

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