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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 1ST SESS.-CHS. 318, 319-JULY 18, 1939 lUiJ construction, operation, and maintenance of said bridges and approaches. SEC. 11. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize Creationn of other or permit the Commission or any member thereof to create any obli- obligations, etc. gation or incur any liability other than such obligations and liabili- ties as are dischargeable solely from funds contemplated to be provided by this Act. No obligation created or liability incurred pursuant to this Act shall be a personal obligation or liability of any member or members of the Commission but shall be chargeable solely to the funds herein provided, nor shall any indebtedness created pursuant to this Act be an indebtedness of the United States. SEo 12. The design and construction of any bridge which may be Design and con- built pursuant to this Act shall be in accordance with the standard structon specifications for highway bridges adopted by the American Associa- tion of State Highway Officials. SEC. 13. In the event that the State of Iowa, or some political sub- Successor in inter- division or agency thereof, shall appoint or constitute, pursuant to estauthor statute duly enacted, the Commission hereby created as a bridge commission or board for the city of Dubuque, with authority to construct, purchase, or acquire bridges across the Mississippi River, abutting upon or entering the corporate limits of the city of Dubuque, then such bridge commission or board shall have authority to con- struct, purchase, or acquire the bridge or bridges referred to in this Act in the manner herein set forth, or in the manner prescribed by State law, and if said commission or board shall elect to proceed in the manner prescribed by State law, it shall ipso facto succeed to all right of the City of Dubuque Bridge Commission under this Act, and all right, title, and interest of the City of Dubuque Bridge Commission under this Act to any bridge and bridges referred to Obligations as- in this Act, subject to any outstanding obligations of said Commis- sumed. sion as hereby created, which obligations shall thereby be assumed by, and become the obligations of, the new bridge commission or board. SEC. 14. Any bridge or bridges constructed, acquired, or recon- ('onstructiln, etc., structed under authority of this Act shall be constructed, maintained, provisions and operated in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable 3 Stat., 84, waters", approved March 23, 1906, notwithstanding any provisions 498. contained herein to the contrary. SEC. 15. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, July 18, 1939. [CHAPTER 319] AN ACT July 18, 1939 To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge [S. 19071 across the Missouri River, at or near Poplar, Montana. [Public, No. 1901 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for Missouri River. commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the bridging, at Poplfr, Missouri River, at or near Poplar, Montana, authorized to be built by Mont- the State of Montana, the counties of Roosevelt, Richland, and McCone thereof, or any of them, by an Act of Congress approved July 28, 1937, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, 0 Stat- 542. from the date of approval hereof. SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, July 18, 1939.

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