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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2 D SESS.-CH. 633 -DEC. 21, 1944 of the United States while in the discharge of duties incident to their office or employment, nor shall toll be charged members of the fire department or peace officers when engaged in the performance of their official duties. Within a reasonable time after the construction of any bridge or tSworn itemized . statements of costs, bridges, or the acquisition of any bridge or bridges, the commission etc., to be aled. shall file with the Public Roads Administration of the Federal Works Agency a sworn itemized statement showing the cost of constructing or purchasing the bridge or bridges and their approaches, the cost of acquiring any interest in real or other property necessary therefor, and the amount of bonds, debentures, or other evidence of indebted- ness issued in connection with the construction or acquisition of said bridge or bridges. SEC. 7. Nothing herein contained shall require the commission or m'g b oridges qir d its successors to maintain or operate any presently existing bridge or hereunder. bridges acquired hereunder, if and when all bonds issued for account of such bridge or bridges shall have been retired or provision for the payment of interest on and the retirement of such bonds from the revenues from any other bridge or bridges shall have been made at the time of issuance of such bonds. Any such presently existing bridge or bridges so acquired and any appurtenances and property thereto connected and belonging, may be sold or otherwise disposed of or may be abandoned or dismantled whenever in the judgment of the commission or its successors, and subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Public Roads, Federal Works Agency, and the United States Secretary of War, it may be declared expedient so to do, and provisions with respect to and regulating any such sale, disposal, abandonment, or dismantlement may be included in pro- ceedings for the issuance and sale of bonds for account of any such bridge or bridges. The commission and its successors may fix such Tol rates for se of rates of toll for the use of such bridge or bridges as it may deem proper, subject to the same conditions as are hereinabove required as to tolls for traffic over the bridge to be constructed, provided tolls shall be fixed and revised from time to time for traffic over all bridges so as not to adversely reflect upon the earnings of any bridge or bridges for account of which bonds may be outstanding. An accurate Records; avallabil- record of the cost of acquiring or constructing each such bridge; the Ity. expenditures 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. 8. (a) After payment of the bonds and interest, or after Conveynce of In- a sinking fund sufficient for such payment shall have been provided of bonds, etc^ e and shall be held solely for that purpose, the commission shall deliver deeds or other suitable instruments of convevance of the interest of the commission in and to that part of said bridge or bridges within Iowa to the State of Iowa or any municipality or agency thereof as may be authorized by or pursuant to law to accept the same (hereafter referred to as the "Iowa interests"), and that part of said bridge or bridges within Illinois to the State of Illinois or any municipality or agency thereof as may be authorized by or pursuant to law to accept the same (hereafter referred to as the "Illinois interests"), under the condition Condition. that the bridge or bridges shall thereafter be free of tolls and be prop- erly maintained, operated, and repaired by the Iowa interests and the Illinois interests, as may be agreed upon; but if the Iowa or Illinois speratione byhom- mission if either or interests, as the case may be, fail to accept, or are not authorized to other interets fil to accept, their respective portions of said bridge or bridges, then the cO Pt. commission may deliver deeds, or other suitable instruments of con- veyance of said portions, to any other interest which may accept and may be authorized to accept the same, under the condition that the 93650--45 --P. -- 54 849

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