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 1056 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 318-JULY 18, 1939 [53 STAT. Capital stock, etc., SEC. 9. The Commission shall have no capital stock or shares of restctoninterest or participation, and all revenues and receipts thereof shall Compensation, al- be applied to the purposes specified in this Act. The members of lowancesetc. the Commission shall be entitled to a per diem compensation for their services of $10 for each day actually spent in the business of the Commission, but the maximum compensation of the chairman in any year shall not exceed $1,200, and of each other member shall not exceed $600. The members of the Commission shall also be entitled to receive traveling-expense allowance of 10 cents a mile for each Employees. mile actually traveled on the business of the Commission. The Com- mission may employ a secretary, treasurer, engineers, attorneys, and other such experts, assistants, and employees as they may deem neces- sary, who shall be entitled to receive such compensation as the Com- mission may determine. All salaries and expenses shall be paid solely from the funds provided under the authority of this Act. Dissolution of Con- After all bonds and interest thereon shall have been paid and all other obligations of the Commission paid or discharged, or provision for all such payment shall have been made as hereinbefore provided and after the bridge or bridges shall have been conveyed to the Iowa interests, the Illinois interests and the Wisconsin interests, as herein provided, or otherwise disposed of as provided herein, the Commis- sion shall be dissolved and shall cease to have further existence by an order of the Commissioner of Public Roads made upon his own initiative or upon application of the Commission or any member or Public hearing, no- members thereof, but only after a public hearing in the city of Dubuque, Iowa, notice of the time and place of which hearing and the purpose thereof shall have been published once, at least thirty days before the date thereof, in a newspaper published in the city of Division of moneys. Dubuque, Iowa. At the time of such dissolution all moneys in the hands of or to the credit of the Commission shall be divided and dis- tribution made between the interests of the States, as may be deter- mined by the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads of the United States. State, etc., aid. SEC. 10. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Act, the Commission shall have full power and authority to negotiate and enter into a contract or contracts with the State Highway Commis- sion of Iowa and the Department of Highways of Illinois, the State Highway Department of Wisconsin, the city of Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, or any county or municipality in the State of Illinois, whereby the Commission may receive financial aid in the construc- tion or maintenance of a bridge or bridges and approaches thereto, and said Commission in its discretion may avail itself of all of the facilities of the State Highway Commission of the State of Iowa and the Department of Highways of the State of Illinois with regard to Contracts. the construction of said proposed bridge or bridges, and the Com- mission may make and enter into any contract or contracts which it deems expedient and proper with the State Highway Commission of Iowa and the Department of Highways of Illinois, whereby said highway departments or either of them may construct, operate, and maintain or participate with the Commission in the construction, operation, maintenance of said bridge or bridges to be constructed Purposedeclared. hereunder, and approaches. It is hereby declared to be the purpose of Congress to facilitate the construction of a bridge and proper approaches across the Mississippi River at or near Dubuque, Iowa, and East Dubuque, Illinois, and to authorize the Commission to pro- mote said object and purposes, with full power to contract with either the State Highway Commission of Iowa or the department of High- ways of Illinois or with any agency or department of the Federal Government, or both, in relation to the purchase or condemnation,

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