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 73d CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 81, 82. JUNE 15, 1933 . 149 SEC. 2. If tolls are charged for the use of such bridge, the rates to ate oftoll app lied of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay the fun d, etc . reaso nable cost o f main tainin g, rep airing, and o perati ng the bridg e and its a pproa ches unde r eco nomic al m anage ment, and to p rovid e a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of the bridge and its approaches, including reasonable interest and financing cost, as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of not to exceed fifteen years from the completion thereof. After a sinking b Maintenance smog fund sufficient for such amortization shall have been so provided, tiling costs. 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 main- tenance, repair, and operation of the bridge and its approaches under economical management. An accurate record of the costs of the Recor d of exp endi- b receipts. bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for maintaining, repair- tares and ing, and operatin g the sam e, and of the dai ly tolls collected, shall b e kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interest ed. SEC. 3 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment . expressly reserved. Approved, June 15, 1933. [CHAPTER 82 .] AN ACT June 15, 1933. To authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the one hun-	[S. 1808 .]	 dredth anniversary in 1936 of the independence of Texas, and of the noble and [Public, No. 59 ] heroic sacrifices of her pioneers, whose revered memory has been an inspiration to her sons and daughters during the past century. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That in com- Texas centennial, memoration of the one hundredth anniversary in 19 36 of the inde- 19 siive r 50- cent piec es pendence of Texas and of the noble and heroic sacrifices of her to be coined in com- memoration of. pioneers, whose memory has been an inspi ration to her sons and daughters during the past century, there shall be coined at the mints of the United State s silv er 50- cent p ieces t o the number of no t more Number, desig n, etc. than one and one-half million, such 50-cent pieces to be of the standard troy weight, composition, diameter, device, and design as shall be fixed by the Director of the Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, which said 50-cent pieces shall be legal Legal tender. tender in any payme nt to the am ount of their face value. SEO. 2 . That the coins herein authorized shall be issued only upon I ssued to Amer ican Le gion Texas C enten- the request of the American Legion Texas Centennial Committee, of nial committee . Austin, Texas, upon payment by such American Legion Texas Cen- tennial Committee of the par value of such coins, and it shall be permissible for the said American Legion Texas Centennial Com- mittee to obtain said coins upon said payment, all at one time or at Pa yment_ separate times, -and in separate amounts, as it may determine. SEC. 3. That all laws now in force relating to the subsidiary silver caiei°ago loans appli- coins of the United State s and the co ining o r stri king of the same, regulating the guarding and process of coinage, providing for the purchase of material, and for the transportation, disposition, and redemption of coins, for the prevention of debasement or counter- feiting, for security of the coins, or for any other purposes, whether said laws are penal or otherwise, shall, so far as applicable, apply P,om3o. to the coinag e here in aut horize d : Provi ded, That the U nited Sta tes No expense for dies, shall not be subject to the expense of making the necessary dies and e tc' other preparations for this coinage. Approved, June 15, 1933.