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 470 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHs. 463-465 . 1928. rifling, or damage thereof in the mails, the indemnity to be paid out of the postal revenues, but in no case to exceed $1,000 for any one registered piece, or the actual value thereof when that is less than $1 ,000, and for which no othe r compensatio n or reimburse ment to the loser has been made, the amount of such indemnity to be fixed by the Postmaster Ge neral. " Appro ved, M ay 1, 1928 . May 1, 1928 . CHAP. 464 .-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway R. 11553	Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain and operate a toll bridge across [Public, No . 32 9 .] 2	9.] the White River at or near Cotter, Akansas . Ark ansa s e River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repr esen tati ves of t he m a y United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the consent brid ge, at Co tter . of Congress is hereby granted to the State Highway Commission of Ark ansas to con struct, mai ntain, and o perat e a br idge a nd ap- proaches thereto across White River, at a point suitable to the inter- Vol.34,p . 84 onstruetion . . ests of navigation, at or near Cotter, Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construc- tion of bridges over navigable waters," approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act . orat ions sink ing tfund, SEC. 2 . If tolls are charged for the use of such bridge, the rates et c• of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient (1) to pay 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 ; and (3) to provide a sinking fund sufficient to retire the bonds limited, etc . of bonds issued and sold in connection with such original construction . All revenues received from the bridge shall be applied to the foregoing purpose s, and no bon ds issued in c onnection wit h the construc tion of the bridge and its approaches shall be made to mature later than twenty years after the date of issue thereof. Maintenance on ntenance as retirement fre e of After a fund sufficient t o retire such bonds in acco rdance with bridge bonds, their provisions shall have been so provided, the bridge shall there- Record of expendi- after be maintained and operated as a free highway bridge upon tures, receipts, etc. which no tolls shall be charged. An accurate and itemized record of the original cost of the bridge and its approaches, the expendi- tures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same, the inter- est charges paid, and the tolls charged and the daily revenues re- ceived from the bridge, shall be kept by the State Highway Commis- sion of Arkansas, and shall be available at all reasonable times for the information of all persons interested. Amendment. SEC. 3 . The right to alter, ame nd, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Appro ved, M ay 1, 1928. May 1, 1928. [x .R. 11625 .1 CHAP. 465.-An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mon- [Public, No. 330.1 tana, Valley County, Montan a, and Garfield County, Montana, or to any or either of them, jointly or severally, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River at o r near Glasgow, Mont ana. Misso uri River. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the Ante, p.111, amend- Unite d States of A merica in Cong ress assemble d, That the Act en- ed . titled "An Act granting the consent of Congress to the State of Montana, Valley County, Montana, and McCone County, Montana, or to any or either of them, jointly or severally, to construct, main- tain, and operate a bridge across the Missouri River at or near

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