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Volume 54

Public Law 76–789

Granting the consent of Congress to the Minnesota Department of Highways and the counties of Benton and Stearns in Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Sauk Rapids, Minnesota.

Approved October 9, 1940

Statutory text

AN ACT

Granting the consent of Congress to the Minnesota Department of Highways and the counties of Benton and Stearns in Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Sauk Rapids, Minnesota.

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

That the consent of

Mississippi River.

Bridge authorized across, at Sauk Rapids, Minn.

Congress is hereby granted to the Minnesota Department of Highways and the counties of Benton and Stearns in Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Sauk Rapids, Minnesota in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters”, approved March

34 Stat. 84.

33 U. S. C. §§ 491–498.

23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act.

Sec. 2.

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

Right reserved.

expressly reserved.

Approved, October 9, 1940.

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