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CHAPTER 205 AN ACT DESIGNATING A CERTAIN BRIDGE IN THE TOWN OF PLYMOUTH AS THE FREDERICK B. DOUGLASS MEMORIAL BRIDGE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter twenty-four of the acts of nineteen hundred and eighty-seven is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. The bridge on Bournedale road over state highway Route 25 in the town of Plymouth shall be designated and known as the Sergeant Major Frederick B. Douglass Memorial bridge, in memory of Frederick B. Douglass who was killed on October twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eighty-three while serving in the United States Marine Corps in the bombing of the Marine barracks in the country of Lebanon. A suitable marker bearing such designation shall be attached thereto by the department of public works in compliance with the standards of said department.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved July 9, 1987.