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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CHS. 65, 66 -APR . 4, 1938 [CHAPTER 65] AN ACT Authorizing the State Highway Departments of North Dakota and Minnesota and the Boards of County Commissioners of Traill County, North Dakota, and Norman County, Minnesota, to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Red River of the North between Caledonia, North Dakota, and Shelly, Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to facilitate interstate commerce, improve the postal service, and provide for military and other purposes, the State Highway Departments of North Dakota and Minnesota and the Boards of County Commis- sioners of Traill County, North Dakota, and Norman County, Minne- sota, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Red River of the North, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, between Caledonia, North Dakota, and Shelly, Minnesota, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters", approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act. SEC. 2 . There is hereby conferred upon the State Highway Depart- ments of North Dakota and Minnesota and the Boards of County Commissioners of Traill County, North Dakota, and Norman County, Minnesota, all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other prop- erty needed for the location, construction, operation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches as are possessed by railroad corpo- rations for railroad purposes or by bridge corporations for bridge purposes in the State in which 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 therefor 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 hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 4, 1938. [CHAPTER 66] AN ACT To authorize the city of Vancouver, Washington, to construct and maintain a historical memorial on the Vancouver Barracks Military Reservation, Wash- ington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secre- tary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue a permit, under regulations to be prescribed by him, to the city of Vancouver, Wash- ington, to construct and maintain on the Vancouver Barracks Military Reservation, Washington, as a historical memorial, a replica of the Old Hudson's Bay Trading Post, the location and plans to be approved by the Secretary of War, and all work incident to the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof to be without expense to the War Department: Provided, That the memorial shall be so enclosed as to preclude direct access to the military reservation therefrom: Provided further, That such permission shall be revoked whenever the ground is not used for a historical memorial or whenever it is not kept in good repair and operated under conditions worthy of its historical significance. Approved, April 4, 1938. April 4, 1938 [H. R. 8409] [Public, No. 461] Red River of the North. North Dakota and Minnesota, etc., may bridge, Caledonia, N. Dak., to Shelly, Minn. 34 Stat. 84. 33 U. S. C.§§ 491- 498. Acquisition of ap- proaches, etc. Proceedings. Amendment. Aril 4, 1938 [. R. 840] [Public, No. 462] Vancouver Bar- racks Military Reser- vation, Wash. Construction of his- torical memorial on, by Vancouver, au- thorized. Approval oflocation and plans. Provisos. No direct access to reservation. Reversionary provi- sion. 195