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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Cns. 783, 784. 1928 . 771 subject only to review in a court of equity for fraud or gross mistake. SEC. 7. The right to sell assign, transfer, b and mortgage all the night to sell, etc ., r. • co nfer red. rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Ripley Bridge Company, its successors and assigns; and any corporation to which or any person to whom such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or who shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation or person. SEC. 8 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment . expressly reserved. Approved, May 26, 1928. CHAP. 784.-An Act Autho rizi ng t he N orth west Flo rida Cor porat ion, its May 25, 1928. [S_4457 .] suc cess ors and assi gns, to cons truc t, m ainta in, and oper ate a bridge across [Public, No. 548 .] Perdido Bay, at or near Inerarity Point in Escambia County, Florida, to the mai nland of Baldw in Co unty, Ala bama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Perdido Bay. United States o f America in Congress assem bled,', That in order to Nort hwes t Fl orid a fa cili tate int erst ate comm erce, im prov e th e po stal ser vice and Cogeorationmay ~ 7 pro- brid , at Inerarity vide for military and other purposes the Northwest Florida Cor- Point, Fla ., to Baldwin poration, its successors and assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized Count y, Ala. to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Perdido Bay, at a point suitable to the interests of naviga- tion, at or near Inerarity Point in Escambia County, Florida, to con straetion, the mainland of Baldwin County, Alabama, in accordance with the vol. 34, p. 84. 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 Northwest Florida Right to acquire real estate, etc ., for location, Corporation, its successors and assigns, all such rights and powers approaches, etc . to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other property needed for the location, construc- tion, 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 such real estate or other propety is situated, upon making just compensa- tion therefor, to be ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the con- e s ings mnat ion pro- demnation or expropriation of property for public purposes in such State. SEC. 3 . The said Northwest Florida Corporation, its successors Tolls authorized. and assigns, is hereby authorized to fix and charge tolls for transit over such bridge, and the rates of toll so fixed shall be the legal Vol.34,p.85. rates until changed by the Secretary of War under the authority contained in the Act of March 23, 1906. Acquisition author- SEC. 4. After the completion of such bridge, as determined by the ized, after completion, Secretary of War, either the State of Florida, the State of Alabama, eto Florida, Alabama, any pu bli c agency or political subdivision of either of such States, within or adjoining which any part of such bridge is located, or any two or more of them jointly, may at any time acquire and take over all right, title, and interest in such bridge and its approaches, and any interest in real property necessary therefor, by purchase or by condemnation or expropriation, in accordance with the laws of either of such States governing the acquisition of private property ac- for public purposes by condemnation or expropriation. If at any quired by co Compensation if sa- ondemna- time after the expiration of twenty years after the completion of tionh such bridge the same is acquired by condemnation or expropriation, the amount of damages or compensation to be allowed shall not

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