Chapter 105. to authorize the construction of a highway bridge across that part of the waters of Lake Champlain lying between the towns of North Hero and Alburgh, in the State of Vermont
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CHAP. 105.— An Act to authorize the construction of a highway bridge across that part of the waters of Lake Champlain lying between the towns of North Hero and Alburgh, in the State of Vermont.June 20, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Highway bridge across Lake Champlain, Grand Isle County, Vermont.Construction. That the proper authorities of the towns of North Hero and Alburgh, in the county of Grand Isle, in the State of Vermont, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and use a highway bridge at some convenient point across that part of the waters of Lake Champlain which divide the aforesaid towns.
Sec. 2. That the structure authorized by the preceding section shallSecurity of navigation. be built and located under and subject to such regulations for the security of navigation of such waters as the Secretary of War shall pre- 50 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 105-107,117,118. 1884. scribe, and shall be provided with such suitable and convenient draw as the said Secretary shall deem needful for the proper purposes of navigation of width not less than that of the Bainville Valley Extension Railroad Company’s draw in their bridge across Missisquoy Bay; and the Maintenance and management.22 Stat., 423.maintenance and management of said structure shall be subject to such of the provisions of section six of chapter fifty-two of the acts of the second session of the Forty-seventh Congress as the Secretary of War may, from time to time, deem needful; and the authority to erect and continue said bridge shall be subject to revocation and modification by law whenever the public good shall, in the judgment of Congress, so require, without any expense or charge to the United States.
Sec. 3. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is herebyAct amended, etc. expressly reserved. Approved, June 20, 1884.