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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.- CHS. 83, 96, 97-APR. 11, 12, 1940 [CHAPTER 83] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Mississippi State Highway Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Pearl River at or near Carthage, in the State of Mississippi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Mississippi State Highway Com- mission to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Pearl River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Carthage, Leake County, Missis- sippi, in accordance with the 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 limita- tions contained in this Act. SEC. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 11, 1940. [CHAPTER 96] JOINT RESOLUTION To extend the authority of the President under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the period during which the President is authorized to enter into foreign-trade agree- ments under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by the Act (Public, Numbered 316, Seventy-third Congress) approved June 12, 1934, is hereby extended for a further period of three years from June 12, 1940. Approved, April 12, 1940. [CHAPTER 97] AN ACT To amend the joint resolution creating the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint reso- lution creating the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission and authoriz- ing said Commission to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Niagara River at or near the city of Niagara Falls, New York, approved June 16, 1938 (52 Stat. 767, ch. 490), as amended by the Act of July 25, 1939 (53 Stat. 1083), be, and is hereby, amended as follows: Insert in the third from last sentence of section 4 of said joint resolution, between the words "for" and "twenty-four months", the words "not exceeding". SEC. 2. Section 6 of said joint resolution, as amended, is further amended in its entirety so as to read as follows: "SEC. 6. Title to the bridge structure, exclusive of the approaches thereto, shall remain in the Commission until payment of the bonds and the interest thereon, or until a sinking fund sufficient for such payment shall have been provided and shall be held for that purpose, whereupon title to said bridge shall be conveyed to the State of New York and to the Canadian interests in the manner hereinafter pro- vided. When, however, the State of New York shall be authorized by law to accept the same the Commission shall deliver to said State 107 April 11 1940 18. 3209] [Public, No. 452] Pearl River. Bridge authorized across, at Carthage, Miss. 34 Stat. 84. 33U.S.C.i§491- 498. Right reserved. April 12, 1940 [H. J . Res. 4071 [Pub. Res., No. 611 Foreign-trade agreements. Authority of the President to enter in- to, extended. 48 Stat. 943. 19U.S.C.§i1351- 1354; Supp. V, § 1351, 1352. April 12 1940 [H. R. 9o161 [Public, No. 453] Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. Provisions relating to, amended. Interest. Title to bridge struc- ture. Conveyance of in- terests.

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