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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG., IST SESS.-CHS. 503-505--AUG. 7, 1939 SEC. 2. If tolls are charged for the use of such bridge, the rates toApplication of tolls of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay ingfund, etc. the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and its approaches under economical management, and to pro- vide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of the bridge and its approaches, including interest at a rate of not to exceed 5 per centum per annum and reasonable financing cost, as approved by the Commis- sioner of Public Roads, as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of not to exceed twenty-five years from the com- pletion thereof. After a sinking fund sufficient for such amortization baintenance as fr shall have been so provided, such bridge shall thereafter be main- ingcosts. etc. tained and operated free of tolls. An accurate record of the costs Record of expendi- of the bridge and its approaches, the expenditure 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. 3. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, August 7, 1939. [CHAPTER 504] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Secretary of the Interior, the State of Washington, and the Great Northern Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate either a combined highway and railroad bridge or two separate bridges across the Columbia River, at or near Kettle Falls, Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Secretary of the Interior, the State of Washington, the Great Northern Railway Company, a cor- poration organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minne- sota, and their successors and assigns, jointly or separately, to con- struct, maintain, and operate either a combined highway and railroad bridge or two separate bridges one to be a highway bridge and one a railroad bridge, across the Columbia River at a point or points suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Kettle Falls, and between Ferry County and Stevens County, Washington, in accord- ance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters", approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act. SEc. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, August 7, 1939. [CHAPTER 505] AN ACT Authorizing the village of Cassville, Wisconsin, or its assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Cassville, Wisconsin, and to a place at or near the village of Guttenberg, Iowa. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to promote interstate commerce. improve the postal service, and pro- vide for military and other purposes, the village of Cassville, Wiscon- sin, or its assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi August 7, 1939 [H. R. 6271] [Public, No. 302] Columbia River. Bridge authorized across, at Kettle Falls, Wash. 34 Stat. 84. 33U.8.C.It491- 498. Amendment. August 7, 1939 [H. R. 6049] [Public, No. 3031 Mississippi River. Bridge authorized across, at Cassville, Wis. 1235

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