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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 359, 360 -AUG. 16, 1941 Norfolk, Virginia-Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Naval Air Sta- tion, $6,500,000. Boston, Massachusetts, Naval Air Station, $6,500,000. Various locations, auxiliary lighter-than-air facilities, $3,000,000. The provisions of section 8 (a) of the Act approved June 28, 1940 (Public, Numbered 671, Seventy-sixth Congress), shall be applicable to the foregoing projects. SEC. 2. The custody and control of the former Naval Air Station at Sunnyvale, California, now known as Moffett Field, are hereby transferred from the Secretary of War to the Secretary of the Navy, who is authorized to reestablish the same as a Naval Air Station, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to establish at such location as he may, with the approval of the President, deem best suited to the purpose, basic heavier-than-air training facilities in lieu of those at Moffett Field at a cost not to exceed $6,500,000. Physical possession of Moffett Field shall be transferred when, in the opinion of the President, the facilities herein authorized for the War Department are sufficiently complete to permit of their use for the purposes specified, but not later than eight months after money is made available to the War Department to provide such facilities. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to conduct aeronautical experiments in the field of other than standard heavier- than-air craft, such as, but not limited to, rotary-wing type aircraft, gliders, metal-hulled and other than conventionally propelled lighter- than-air craft and the like at a cost not to exceed $100,000. SEC. 4. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appro- priated, such sums as may be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act. Approved, August 16, 1941. [CHAPTER 360] AN ACT To provide for the adjustment of tolls to be charged by the city of Washington, Missouri, in the maintenance and operation of a toll bridge across the Missouri River at or near Washington, Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate anid House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress a.sembled, That in the event that the city of Washington, Missouri, shall issue toll bridge revenue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding or redeeming its out- standing 4 per centum toll bridge revenue bonds dated July 1, 1934, which were issued to provide funds for the construction of the bridge authorized by the Act of Congress approved June 15, 1933 entitled "An Act granting the consent of Congress to the city of Washington, Missouri, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Missouri River at or near Washington, Missouri", or in the event that said city shall extend the maturity date or dates of said outstanding bonds, the rates of toll to be charged for the use of said bridge shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay for the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operat- ing said bridge and its approaches under economical management and to provide a fund sufficient to pay the principal and interest and the redemption premium, if any, of such toll bridge revenue refund- ing bonds, or of said outstanding bonds, as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of not exceeding twenty years from the date of approval of this Act, and such tolls shall be continued until such payments shall have been made. After such bonds and the interest thereon shall have been paid, said bridge 278941°-42-PT. 1 -- Ante, p. 557. Cost increase. 54 Stat.680. 41U.S.C., prec.I 1 note. Reestablishment of Moffett Field, Calif., as Naval Air Station. Heavier-than-air training facilities for War Department. Ante, p. 566. Aeronautical experi- ments. Appropriation authorized. August 16,1941 [IH. R. 3625] [Public Law 211] Bridge, Washing- ton, Mo. Adjustment of toll rates. 48 Stat. 152.

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