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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG., 1ST SESS. -CHS. 138, 167-MAY 29, 31, 1945 SEC. 2. If any part of the land conveyed pursuant to this Act is used for other than highway purposes, or ceases to be used for high- way purposes, such part shall revert to the United States. Approved May 29, 1945. [CHAPTER 167] JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent of Congress to an agreement amending the original agree- ment entered into by the States of New York and Vermont relating to the creation of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Con- gress is hereby given to an amendatory agreement executed on April 21, 1945, by the commissioners duly appointed on the part of the States of New York and Vermont, amending an agreement entered into by such States on May 11, 1927, and consented to by the Congress by the joint resolution approved February 16, 1928, which amendatory agreement reads as follows: WHEREAS, the states of New York and Vermont heretofore and on the eleventh day of May, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, entered into an agreement, or compact, duly authorized by law, creating the Lake Champlain bridge commission; and WHEREAS, the legislatures of said states have authorized their respective commissioners to enter into an agreement, or compact, amending said existing agreement, or compact; NOW, THEREFORE, the said states of New York and Vermont do hereby enter into the following agreement, or compact, to wit: The agreement, or compact, heretofore made and entered into on the eleventh day of May, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, between the state of New York and the state of Vermont, pursuant to chapter three hundred and twenty-one of the laws of New York, nineteen hundred twenty-seven, entitled "an act authorizing designated authorities in behalf of the state of New York to enter into an agree- ment or compact with designated authorities of the state of Vermont for the creation of the Lake Champlain bridge commission, the establishment of the Lake Champlain bridge commission and the defining of the powers and duties of such commission, and making an appropriation for such purposes", and act number one hundred and thirty-nine of the public acts of Vermont, nineteen hundred twenty- seven, entitled "an act ratifying a proposed agreement or compact between the state of Vermont and the state of New York relating to the creation of the Lake Champlain bridge commission and providing for carrying out the provisions of said agreement or compact", as the same was amended by the agreement or compact entered into the thirtieth day of March, nineteen hundred thirty-five, by and under the authority of chapter two hundred and one of the laws of New York, nineteen hundred thirty-three, as amended by chapter three hundred and fifty-five of the laws of New York, nineteen hundred thirty-five, and by and under the authority of act number two hundred and nine of the public acts of Vermont, nineteen hun- dred thirty-five, as amended by act number two hundred and ten of the public acts of Vermont, nineteen hundred thirty-five, and as the same was further amended by the agreement or compact entered into the first day of April, nineteen hundred thirty-six, by and under the authority of chapter seventy-three of the laws of New York, nineteen hundred thirty-six, as amended by chapter two hundred and nineteen of the laws of New York, nineteen hundred thirty-six, and by and under the authority of act number nineteen May 31,1946 [H. J. Res. 113] [Public Law 71] Lake Champlain Bridge Commission. Consent given to amendatory agree- ment by New York and Vermont. 45 Stat. 120.

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