Public Law 72–232

That in order to facilitate interstate commerce, improve postal service, and provide for military and other purposes, the Louisiana Highway Commission be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Pearl River,

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Pearlington, Mississippi, 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.

There is hereby conferred upon the Louisiana Highway Commission all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other property needed for the location, construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches as are possessed by railroad corporations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for bridge purposes in the State in which such real estate or other property is situated, upon making just compensation therefor, to

Condemnation proceedings.

be ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the condemnation or expropriation of property for public purposes in such State.

Sec. 3.

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