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54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 409, 410 -JUNE 21, 24 , 1940 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, June 21, 1940. The Senate having proceeded to reconsider the bill (H. R. 9381) entitled "An Act to provide for the alteration of certain bridges over navigable waters of the United States, for the apportionment of the cost of such alterations between the United States and the owners of such bridges, and for other purposes", returned by the President of the United States to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, with his objections, and passed by the House on a reconsideration of the same, it was Resolved, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the Senators present having voted in the affirmative. Attest: EDWIN A. HALSExr Secretary. [CHAPTER 410] AN ACT Authorizing a grant to the city of Fargo, North Dakota, of an easement in connection with the construction of water and sewer systems. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adminis- trator of the Civil Aeronautics Authority is authorized and directed to grant to the city of Fargo, North Dakota, a permanent easement authorizing such city to construct and maintain a system of inter- cepter or trunk sewer lines and water mains under the west sixty feet of a tract of land owned by the United States and located north of such city of Fargo, in Cass County, North Dakota, such tract of land being now used as the site of an airways radio and range station and is more specifically described as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner southeast quarter of section 30, township 140 north, range 48 west, fifth principal meridian; thence north along the north and south quarter line seventy-five feet to a point; thence east parallel to the east and west quarter line eight hundred and eighty feet to a point; thence south seven hundred and twenty feet to a point; thence west parallel to the east and west quarter line eight hundred and eighty feet to a point on the north and south quarter line thence north along the north and south quarter line six hundred and forty-five feet to the point of beginning, containing fourteen and fifty-five one-hundredths acres, more or less. The easement authorized to be granted by this Act shall be in lieu of the license revocable at the will of the Secretary of Commerce, granted to such city by a certain instrument dated December 20, 1934, and executed by Ewing Y. Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, as amended by a certain instrument dated March 12,1935, and executed by the said Ewing Y. Mitchell. SEC. 2. Such easement shall be granted subject to the following condition: (1) The grantee shall not use any machines or erect any temporary structures on said land that will extend more than ten feet above the surface of the immediately surrounding area without permission of the operator in charge of the station or erect any permanent struc- tures above the ground; (2) None of the operations of the city in the exercise of any of the privileges granted by this easement shall interfere in any way with any wires, cables, conduits, pipes, sewers, or other structures of any kind or character now installed in or across such tract or hereafter installed in such tract by the Government or by any subsequent owner of any part of the tract; 503 Certificate of Sen- ate. June 24, 1940 [S. 2059] [Public, No. 648] Fargo, N. Dak. Granting of ease- ment under certain U. 8. land. Description. Easement to be In lieu of license. Conditions. Restriction on machines and height of structures. No Interference with Installed wires, etc.