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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 127-129--MAR . 4, 1942 and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Colorado River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Needles, California, 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 con- ditions and limitations contained in this Act. SEC. 2. The construction of such bridge shall be commenced within two years and completed within four years from the date of enact- ment of this Act. SEC. 3. There is hereby conferred upon the States of Arizona and California, jointly or separately, all such rights and powers to enter upon lands and to acquire, condemn, occupy i possess, and use real estate and other property needed for the location, construction, oper- ation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches as are pos- sessed by railroad corporations 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. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 4, 1942. [CHAPTER 128] AN ACT To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to permit the vestry of Rock Creek Parish to utilize for burial sites certain land within its present holdings in Rock Creek Cemetery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, without regard to the provisions of section 84, chapter 4, title 5, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia and notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, to permit the vestry of Rock Creek Parish to lay out and utilize for burial sites that parcel of land owned by the vestry in Rock Creek Cemetery in the District of Columbia shown on survey map numbered 2593, filed in the Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia on October 28, 1941, and to maintain perpetually such parcel of land as a part of Rock Creek Cemetery. Approved, March 4, 1942. [CHAPTER 129] AN ACT To change the name of Conduit Road in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the highway lying within the District of Columbia and extending therein from Foxhall Road to the Maryland-District of Columbia line, now known as Conduit Road, shall hereafter be designated by the name Mac- Arthur Boulevard, in honor of the gallant defense of the Philippines by General Douglas MacArthur. Approved, March 4, 1942. 123 34 Stat. 84. 33U.S.C.§§491- 498. Right to acquire property. March 4, 1942 [H. R. 6107] [Public Law 470] Rock Creek Ceme- tery, D. C. 31 Stat. 1295. D. C . Code § 27-114. March 4, 1942 [H. R. 6536] [Public Law 471] MacArthur Boule- vard, D. C.