Public Law 75–306

That in order to facilitate interstate commerce, improve the Postal Service, and provide for military and other purposes, the State Roads Commission of the State of Maryland and the State Highway Department, of the State of Virginia be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Potomac River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near a point in the vicinity of Point of Rocks in Frederick County, Maryland, and a point near the south end of Loudoun County, Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act

31 Stat. 84.

33 U. S. C. §§ 491–498.

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.

There is hereby conferred upon the State Roads Commission

Right to acquire real estate, etc., for location, etc.

of the State of Maryland and the State Highway Department of the State of Virginia 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 real estate or other property is situated, upon making just compensation therefor, to be ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the

Condemnation proceedings.

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

Amendment.

expressly reserved.