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 982 73d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 572, 573 . JUNE 18, 1934 . Maintenan ce, as free have been so provi ded, such brid ge shall ther eafter be mai ntained bridge a aft er am orti zing and operated free of tolls, or the rates of tolls shall thereafter be so adjusted as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount neces- sary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of the bridge Record of expendi- and its approaches under economical management. An accurate tares and receipts. record of the cost of the bridge and its approaches ; the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same ; and of the daily tolls collected shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested. SEC. 5 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 18, 1934. [CHAPTER 573 .] June 18, 1934. [S. 3443 .1	 _ To provide for the creat ion o f the Pion eer N ation al Mo numen t in the S tate of [Public, No. 380 .] Kentu cky, and for other purposes. Pioneer National Monument, Ky. Whereas no provision has been made to preserve some of the great Preamble. shrines of pioneer history that played their part in the drama of the American Revolution, both in resistance to the efforts of the British and their Indian allies to wipe out the American colonists west of the Alleghenies and thus close in on the colonists along the Atlantic seaboard and in waging a counteroffensive that resulted in the conquest and acquisition of the Old Northwest ; and Whereas four of these shrines in Kentucky represent in continuity a counterpart of the American Revolution east of the Alleghenies, to wit: (1) Boonesborough, where the first fort "in the West" was erected, the first highway to " the West, the Wilderness Road ", termina ted, th e first colon ization was ef fected, and t he firs t legi s- lature met ; (2) Boones Station, whence Daniel Boone, as lieu- tenant colonel of the Fayette County Militia, rushed troops to the assistance of various other besieged stations as well as joined in the retaliatory campaigns under General George Rogers Clark int o the Old Nor thwest, and w here he buried his son and nephew, who fell at the Battle of Blue Licks ; (3) Bryans Station, where the women of the fort sallied forth under the rifles of some six hundred Indians to procure water for the besieged pioneers on August 18, 1782, contributing in large measure to the successful defense of the fort ; and (4) Blue Licks Battlefield, scene of the accredited " Last Battle of the Revolution ", August 19, 1782, which aroused all of the western colonists to unitedly launch a devastating campaign into the Ohio country, under the leadership of General George Rogers Clark, that effectually stopped further invasion of Kentucky by the British and Indians and was the forerunner of the final conquest of the entire Northwest Territory for the United States : Therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That when title be eti pa~ d lands ewhen to the sites of Fort Boonesborough, Boones Station, Bryans Station, title vested in united and Blue Licks Battlefield, in the State of Kentucky, comprising states. noncontiguous tracts to be united by a Memorial Highway, together with such historical structures and remains thereon, as may be desig- nated by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary or desirable for national monument purposes and for the proper commemoration of the valor and sacrifices of the pioneers of " the West ", shall have been vested in the United States, said areas and improvements shall be designated and set apart by proclamation of the President for AN ACT