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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 481, 482-JUNE 16, 1938 [CHAPTER 481] AN ACT Authorizing the North Dakota State Highway Department and the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to facilitate interstate connerce, improve the postal service, and provide for military and other purposes, the North Dakota State Highway Department and the Department of Highways of the State of Minne- sota are authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free high- way bridge and approaches thereto across the Red River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, from a point in Walsh County, North Dakota, at or near the terminus of North Dakota State Highway Numbered 17, such point being located near the dividing line between sections 18 and 19, township 157 north range 51 west, fourth principal meridian, to a point in Marshall County, Minnesota, located near the dividing line between sections 17 and 20, township 157 north, range 50 west, fourth principal meridian, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regu- late 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 are hereby conferred upon the North Dakota State Highway Department and the Department of Highways of the State of Minnesota all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other prop- erty needed for the location, construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches as are possessed by railroad cor- porations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for bridge purposes in the State in which real estate or other property is situ- ated, upon making just compensation therefor, to be 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. SEC. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 16, 1938. [CHAPTER 482] June 16, 1938 [S. 38671 [Public, No. 661] Red River. North Dakota and Minnesota may bridge. Location. 34 Stat. 84 . 33 U. S. 0.01 491- 498. Acquisition of real estate, etc. Amendment. AN ACT June 16, 138 To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge [I. 3898] across the Piscataqua River at or near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. [Public, No. 602 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for PiscataquaRiver. commencing and completing the construction of the bridge across the bridgig, at Porsa Piscataqua River, at or near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, author- mouth, N. H. ized to be built by the Maine-New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority, by an Act of Congress approved July 28, 1937, are hereby 60 Sta t -Sm S extended one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval hereof. SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment- expressly reserved. Approved, June 16, 1938. 763

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