Volume 69 · 553
Public Law 84–271
To amend the Acts granting the consent of Congress to the State of Connecticut, acting by and through any agency or commission thereof, to construct, maintain, and operate toll bridges across the Connecticut River.
Approved August 9, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Acts granting the consent of Congress to the State of Connecticut, acting by and through any agency or commission thereof, to construct, maintain, and operate toll bridges across the Connecticut River.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 2 of the Act approved August 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 1234), entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the State of Connecticut, acting by and through any agency or commission thereof, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Connecticut River at or near Hartford, onnecticut”, and section 2 of the Act approved April 24, 1946 (60 Stat. 122), entitled “An Act granting the consent of Congress to the State of Connecticut, acting by and through any agency or commission thereof, to construct, maintain, and operate a toil bridge across the Connecticut River at or near Old Saybrook, Connecticut”, are each amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 2.
The last sentence of section 4 of such Act of March 23, 1906,
shall not be applicable to the bridge constructed pursuant to the provisions of this Act.”
Sec. 2.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as amending any provision of existing Federal law relating to the expenditure of Federal-aid highway funds.
Approved August 9, 1955.