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Public Law 75–608

Authorizing the State Roads Commission of the State of Maryland to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Cambridge Creek, in or near Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, to replace a bridge already in existence.

Approved August 12, 1937

Statutory text

AN ACT

Authorizing the State Roads Commission of the State of Maryland to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Cambridge Creek, in or near Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, to replace a bridge already in existence.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That in order to

Cambridge Creek.

Maryland may bridge, at Cambridge.

facilitate interstate commerce, improve the postal service, and provide for military and other purposes, the State Roads Commission of the, State of Maryland be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across Cambridge Creek, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in Cambridge, in Dorchester County, Maryland, in accordance

Construction.

34 Stat. 84.

33 U. S. C. §§ 491–493.

with the provisions of the 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.

There is hereby conferred upon the State Roads Commission

Right to acquire real estate, etc.

of the State of Maryland 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 proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the condemnation

Condemnation proceedings.

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.

Approved, August 12, 1937.

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