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PUBLIC LAW 85-504-JULY 3, 1958

and operate a bridge across the Mississippi Kiver at or near Friar Point, Mississippi, and Helena, Arkansas, and for other purposes", approved May 17, 1939 (53 Stat. 747), shall be the four-year period and the six-year period, respectively, beginning on August 9, 1957. Approved July 3, 1958.

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Public Law 85-503 AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction, protection, operation, and maintenance of public airports in the Territory of Alaska", as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction, protection, operation, and maintenance of public airports in the Territory of Alaska", approved May 28, 1948 (62 Stat. 277), as amended, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. The Secretary of Commerce is empowered to lease under such conditions as he may deem proper and for such periods as may be desirable (not to exceed ten years) space or property within or upon the airports for purposes essential or appropriate to the operation of the airports: Provided, That real property within or upon the airports may be leased for purposes of erecting structures necessary or incident to the operation oi the airports, for periods not exceeding fifty-five years, and any such lease heretofore made may be renewed or renegotiated for any such period." Approved July 3, 1958.

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Alaska. Airports; l e a s e s. 48 USC 485d.

Public Law 85-504 JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent and approval of Congress to an amendment of the agreement between the States of Vermont and New York relating to the creation of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent and approval of Congress is given to the amendment by the States of Vermont and New York of the agreement between such States relating to the creation of the Lake Champlain Bridge Commission, as amended, as consented to and approved by the Congress in the joint resolutions of February 16, 1928 (45 Stat. 120), August 23, 1935 (49 Stat. 736), June 4, 1936 (49 Stat. 1472), and May 31, 1945 (59 Stat. 227). The amendment consented to and approved by this Act adds to such agreement the following articles: "ARTICLE XLIV " 1. Article twenty-one and section three of article thirty of this compact or agreement as heretofore entered into between the states of Vermont and New York having stated the declared purpose of each of the contracting parties with respect to the future operation of the two highway bridges heretofore constructed by the Lake Champlain bridge commission at the time said provisions became effective, and the obligations of said commission heretofore issued having been

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