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 972 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. CHs. 877-879. 1928 . vol. 38, p. 2 79, re- ress of his action on claims of postmasters for loss by burglary, pealed. fire, or other unavoidable casualty, is hereby repealed. Approved, May 29, 1928. May 29, 1928. [S. 4344 .]	CHAP. 878 .-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State highway [Public, No. 568.1 commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across White River at or near Clarendon, Arkansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the White River . ighway United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the consent commission may bridge, of Congress is hereby granted to the State highway commission of at Clarendon. Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the White River, at a point suitable to the interests Construction, of naviga tion, at or ne ar Clarendon, Arkansas, in accordance wi th Vol.34,p.84. the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construc- tion of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906. Tolls, under state, etc ., operation . SEC. 2 . If tolls are charged for the use of such bridge the rates . Rates, to be applied of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient (1) to pay to operation, sinking fund, etc. the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and its approaches ; (2) the interest on borrowed money necessarily required and financing charges necessarily incurred in connection with the construction of the bridge and its approaches ; App lication of reve- and (3) to provide a sinking fund sufficient to retire the bonds issued nues. and sold in connection with such original construction. All revenue received from the bridge shall be applied to the foregoing purposes, and no bonds issued in connection with the construction of the bridge and its approaches shall be made to mature later than twenty years after the date of issue thereof. Maintenance as free After a fund sufficient to retire such bonds in accordance with bridge after retiring bonds. their provisions shall have been so provided, the bridge shall there- after be maintained and operated as a free highway bridge upon R ecord of expe ndi- which no tolls shall be charged. An accurate and itemized record ture and receipts. of the original cost of the bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same, the interest charges paid, and the tolls charged and the daily revenues received from the bridge shall be kept by the State highway commission of Arkansas, and shall be available at all reasonable times for the Amen dment. information of all persons interested. SEC. 3. The r ight to alter, amend, or re peal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, May 29, 1928. May 29,102& [S .4327 .1 CHAP. 879.-An Act To relinquish the title of the United States to land in [Public, No. 569 .] the claim of Seth Dean, situate in the county of Washington, State of Alabama. Be it e nacted by the Senate and Ho use of Repres entatives o f t h e Washin gton Count y, United States o f America in Congress assembled, That all the right, Ala. Title ofUnited States title, and interest of the United States in and to section 41, all in relinq uished of lan ds township 3 north, range 1 east, Saint Ste hens meridian Washing_ in, claimed by Seth p ' p rn bean . ton County, Alabama, containing six hundred and forty acres, as shown on a plat of survey made by Thomas Freeman, surveyor, of Unite d States land south of Tenn essee, approv ed January 26 , 18 49, and segregated thereon as the claim of Seth Dean be, and the same is hereby, released, relinquished, and confirmed by the United States to the equitable owners of the equitable titles thereto, and to their respe ctive heirs a nd assigns for ever, as full y and complet ely, in every respect whatever, as could be done by patents issued according Proviso. OOnly stitle of United to law : Provided, That this Act shall amount only to a relinquish- States re linquishedL ment of any title that the United States has, or is supposed to have,

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