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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · December 24, 1894 · Chapter 8

Chapter 8. To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River above New Orleans,” approved January twenty-six, eighteen hundred and ninety-three

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CHAP. 8.— An Act To amend the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River above New Orleans,” approved January twenty-six, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.December 24, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Time for bridging Mississippi River at New Orleans extended. That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi 596FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Chs. 8–11. 1894. River above New Orleans,” approved January twenty-six, eighteenVol. 27, p. 426. hundred and ninety-three, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to extend the time for the commencement of the construction of said bridge to three years and its completion to six years from the approval of this Act. Approved, December 24, 1894. Chapter 9: Making an appropriation to supply nil urgent deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for public printing and binding.
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