Chapter 66. Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct a bridge across Elk River on the Athens-Florence road between Lauderdale and Limestone Counties, Alabama
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CHAP. 66.— An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Alabama to construct a bridge across Elk River on the Athens-Florence road between Lauderdale and Limestone Counties, Alabama. March 22, 1926.[[H. R. 8386](/us/bill/69/hr/8386).][[Public, No. 55](/us/pl/69/55).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the consentElk Elver.Alabama may bridge, between Lauderdale and Limestone Counties. of Congress is hereby granted to the highway department of the State of Alabama and its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Elk River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, on the Athens-Florence road between Lauderdale and Limestone Counties, in the State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of theConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84.
Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906: *Provided*, That such*Proviso*Approval of traffic capacity required. bridge shall not be constructed or commenced until the plans and specifications thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers as being also satisfactory from the standpoint of the volume and weight of the traffic which will pass over it. Sec. 2. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved.
Approved, March 22, 1926.