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 SEVENTIETH C ONGRESS. SEss. IT. Cxs. 477, 478. 1929 . 1449 struction, financing, and promotion of the bridge, shall be conclusive for the purposes mentioned in section 2 of this Act, subject only to review in a court of equity for fraud or gross mistake. SEC. 5 . The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the co Right d to se ll, etc., rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to the Bainbridge Island Chamber of Commerce, a corporation, its successors and assigns ; and any corporation to which or any person to whom such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or who 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 or person. SEC. 6 . All contracts made in connection with the construction of Construction con- SEC. to be let to lowest the bridge authorized by this Act and which shall involve the expen- biddere diture of more than $5,000, shall be let by competitive bidding . Such Advertising ., e tc. contracts shall be advertised for a reasonable time in some newspaper of general circulation published in the State in which the bridge is located and in the vicinity thereof ; sealed bids shall be required and the contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Verified copies or abstracts of all bids received and of the bid or bids accepted shall be promptly furnished to the highway department contracts void for of the State in which such bridge is located. A failure to comply in violations. good faith with the provisions of this section shall render null and void any cont ract made in violation thereof, and the Secretary of War may, after hearings, order the suspe nsion of all work upon such bridge until the provisions of this section shall have been fully complied with. SE C. 7. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment . expressly reserved. Approved, March 2, 1929. CHAP. 478 .-An Act To enable the Postmaster General to make contracts for the transportation of mails by air from possessions or Territories of the United States to foreign countries an d to the United Stat es and between such possessions or Territories, and to authorize him to make contracts with private individuals and corporations for the conveyance of mails by air in foreign countries. March 2, 1929. Eli. R. 16131 .] [Public, No. 904.] Be it enacted by the Senate and Home o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Act of Ante,p. 248. amend- March 8, 1928, entitled "An Act to grant authority to the Postmaster ed . General to enter into contracts for the transportation of mails by air to foreign countries and insular possessions of the United States for periods of not more than ten years and to pay for such service at fixed rates per pound or per mile, and for other purposes," be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows : cG Ten-year contracts SucT iox 1. When in his judgment the public interest will be authorized for air mail promoted thereby the Postmaster General is authorized to enter service between United Sta tes and poss essi ons, into contracts for air-mail service on routes between the United and foreign countries, States and possessions or Territories of the United States, between etc ., both ways. possessions or Territories of the United States, between the United States or possessions or Territories of the United States and foreign countries, and in and between foreign countries, for the trans- portation of mails of the United States and its possessions or Ter- ritories both was over the routes and in addition thereto mails Mails of other coun- t' tries on outbound and of other countries on the outbound or the inbound flights under inbound flights, arrangements he may make with such countries, for periods of not more than ten and to pay for such service at fixed Payment at pound or rates per pound and years, or er mile ; and the Postmaster General is mile rates.

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