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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 70, 71--APR. 11, 12, 1941 Lt. Col. F. E. Parker. April 12, 1941 [S. 324] [Public Law 37] White County Bridge Commission. Acquisitionof bridge and ferries, Wabash River. 34 Stat. 84. 33U.8. C.§§491- 498. Right to acquire real estate, etc. Tolls. 34 Stat. 84. 33U.S.C.II491- 496. Bond issue for pay- ment of cost. Interest, maturity, etc. SEC. 16. That the Comptroller General of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel F. E. Parker, Finance Department (deceased), the sum of $5,072, public funds for which he is accountable and which were paid by him on fraudulent vouchers prepared by his deputy. Approved, April 11, 1941. [CHAPTER 71] AN ACT To create the White County Bridge Commission; defining the authority, power, and duties of said Commission; and authorizing said Commission and its suc- cessors and assigns to purchase, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Wabash River at or near New Harmony, Indiana, and to purchase, maintain and operate certain ferries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to facilitate interstate commerce, improve the Postal Service, and pro- vide for military and other purposes, the White County Bridge Com- mission (hereinafter created and hereinafter referred to as the "commission") and its successors and assigns be, and is hereby, author- ized to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, from its owners, and to maintain and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Wabash River at or near the city of New Harmony, Indiana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regu- late the construction of bridges over navigable waters", approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations con- tained in this Act. For like purposes said commission and its suc- cessors and assigns are hereby authorized to acquire, maintain, and operate all or any ferries across the Wabash River within one mile of said bridge, subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act. SEC. 2. There is hereby conferred upon the commission and its successors and assigns the right and power to acquire, condemn, occupy, possess, and use said bridge and such real estate and other property in the State of Illinois and the State of Indiana as may be needed for the acquisition and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches, upon making just compensation therefor, to be ascer- tained and paid according to the laws of the State in which such real estate or other property is situated, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the condemnation of private property for public purposes in said State, respectively. SEC. 3. The commission and its successors and assigns are hereby authorized to fix and charge tolls for transit over such bridge and such ferry or ferries in accordance with the provisions of this Act, subject to the approval of the Secretary of War as provided by the Act of Congress approved March 23, 1906. SEC. 4. The commission and its successors and assigns are hereby authorized to provide for the payment of the cost of such bridge as may be acquired and its approaches (including any approach high- ways which, in the judgment of the commission, it is necessary or advisable to construct or cause to be constructed to provide suitable and adequate connection with existing improved highways) and such ferry or ferries as may be acquired and the necessary land, easements, and appurtenances thereto by an issue or issues of negotiable bonds of the commission, bearing interest at the rate of not more than 6 per centum per annum, the principal and interest of which bonds and any premium to be paid for retirement thereof before maturity shall be payable solely from the sinking fund provided in accordance with 140 [55 STAT.

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