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Rh If such bridge shall at any time be taken over or acquired by any municipality or other political subdivision or subdivisions of the State of Pennsylvania under the provisions of section 3 of this Act, and if tolls are charged for the use thereof, the rates of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay for the cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and its approaches, and to provide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the amount paid for such bridge and its approaches as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of not to

exceed thirty years from the date of acquiring the same. After a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of acquiring the bridge and its approaches shall have been provided, such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls, or the rates of toll shall thereafter be so adjusted as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper care, maintenance, and operation of the bridge and its approaches.

An accurate record of the amount paid for the bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for operating, repairing, and maintaining the same, and of daily tolls collected shall be kept, and shall be available for the information of all persons interested.

The said H. J. Stannert, Harry Weis, and George W. Rockwell, their legal representatives and assigns, shall, within ninety days after the completion of such bridge, file with the Secretary of War a sworn itemized statement showing the actual original cost of constructing such bridge and approaches, including the actual cost of acquiring interests in real property and actual financing and promotion costs.

Within three years after the completion of such bridge, the Secretary of War may investigate the actual cost of such bridge, and for such purpose the said H. J. Stannert, Harry Weis, and George W. Rockwell, their - legal representatives and assigns, shall make available to the Secretary of War all of their records in connection with the financing- and construction thereof.

The findings of the Secretary of War as to such actual original cost shall be conclusive, subject only to review in a court of equity for fraud or gross mistake.

The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the said H. J. Stannert, Harry Weis, and George W. Rockwell, their legal representatives and assigns, and any corporation to which such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure or otherwise, is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation.

The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, May 7, 1926.

. 266.— An Act To revive and reenact the Act entitled "An Act granting the consent of Congress to the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River approved January 31, 1923.".

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Act approved January 31, 1923, granting the consent of Congress to the city of Saint Paul, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Mississippi River, at or near Robert Street in the said city of Saint Paul, in the county of Ramsey, in the State of Minnesota, be, and the same is hereby revived and reenacted: Provided, That