Chapter 76. Authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River where Louisiana Highway Numbered 21 meets Texas Highway Numbered 45
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Chap. 76: Authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River where Louisiana Highway Numbered 21 meets Texas Highway Numbered 45. 1929-01-19 76 Chapter 45 Stat. 1083 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public 1083 Chapter 76.— An Act Authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River where Louisiana Highway Numbered 21 meets Texas Highway Numbered 45.
January 19, 1929.[[H. R. 15067](/us/bill/70/hr/15067).][[Public, No. 666](/us/pl/70/666).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in. order toSabine River.Louisiana and Texas may bridge, between Vernon Parish, La., and Newton County, Tex. facilitate interstate commerce, improve the postal service, and provide for military and other purposes, the Louisiana Highway Commission and the State Highway Commission of Texas be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Sabine River, between Vernon Parish, Louisiana, and Newton County, Texas, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, where Louisiana Highway Numbered 21 meets Texas Highway Numbered 45, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction ofConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906.
Sec. 2. There is hereby conferred upon the Louisiana HighwayRight to acquire real estate, etc., for location, approaches, etc. Commission, and the State Highway Commission of Texas all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other property needed for the location, construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches as are possessed by railroad corporations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for bridge purposes in the State in which such real estate or other property is situated, upon making just compensation therefor, to be ascertained and paid according to the laws of such State, and the proceedings thereforCondemnation proceedings. shall be the same as in the condemnation or expropriation of property for public purposes in such State.
Sec. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Sec. 4. The Act of Congress approved May 29, 1928, authorizingFormer Act repealed.*Ante*, p. 976, repealed. the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct a bridge across the Sabine River at or near Burr Ferry, Louisiana, is hereby repealed. Approved, January 19, 1929.
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Authorizing the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Sabine River where Louisiana Highway Numbered 21 meets Texas Highway Numbered 45
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