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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 67, 68-APR. 4, 1938 [CHAPTER 67] AN ACT [52 STAT. April 4, 1938 [H. R. 8524] Authorizing the completion of the existing project for the protection of the sea [Public, No. 463] wall at Galveston Harbor, Texas. Galveston Harbor, Tex. Completion of proi- ect for protecting the sea wall, authorized. 49 Stat. 1034 . April 4, 1938 [H. R. 86231 [Public, No. 464] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives.of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to complete the project, adopted in the River and Harbor Act approved August 30, 1935, for the construction of groins to protect the sea wall at Galveston Harbor, Texas, in accordance with the plans submitted in House Document Numbered 400, Seventy-third Congress. Approved, April 4, 1938. [CHAPTER 68] AN ACT Authorizing the State Highway Departments of North Dakota and Minnesota and the Boards of County Commissioners of Traill County, North Dakota, and Polk County, Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free high- way bridge across the Red River of the North westerly of Nielsville, Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Red River of the United States of America in Congress assembled That in order to North Dakota and facilitate interstate commerce, improve the postal service, and pro- Minnesota may bridge, wetery of vide for military and other purposes, the State Highway Depart- Nielsviie, Minn. ments of North Dakota and Minnesota and the Boards of County Commissioners of Traill County, North Dakota, and Polk County, Minnesota, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Red River of the North, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, westerly of Nielsville, Minnesota, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the con- 34 Stat. 84 . struction of bridges over navigable waters", approved March 23, 498. . C 491- 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act. Acquisitio of ap- SEC. 2. There is hereby conferred upon the State Highway prhes,etc. Departments of North Dakota and Minnesota and the Boards of County Commissioners of Traill County, North Dakota, and Polk County, Minnesota, 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 prop- erty is situated, upon making just compensation therefor, to be Proceedings. ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the condemnation or expropriation of property for public purposes in such State. Amendment. SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 4, 1938. 196

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