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Public Law 76–8
To name the bridge to be erected over the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia after the late “March King”, John Philip Sousa, composer of the “Stars and Stripes Forever”.
Approved March 7, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To name the bridge to be erected over the Anacostia River in the District of Columbia after the late “March King”, John Philip Sousa, composer of the “Stars and Stripes Forever”.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the bridge
Bridge authorized over Anacostia River, D. C., to be so designated.
authorized to be erected over the Anacostia River, in the District of Columbia, in the line of Pennsylvania Avenue be hereafter known as the John Philip Sousa Bridge.
Approved, March 7, 1939.