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PUBLIC LAW 155-JULY 28, 1953

Bay of San Francisco from the Rincon Hill district in San Francisco by way of Goat Island to Oakland", approved February 20, 1931, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. (a) The State of California is hereby authorized to fix, charge, and collect tolls for the use of the bridge referred to in the first section of this Act, at rates so adjusted as (1) to provide a fund sufficient to pay the reasonable costs of maintaining, repairing, and operating such bridge and its approaches under economical management, (2) to pay the costs of such bridge and its approaches (including reasonable interest, financing, and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), and (3) to repay all sums advanced and required to be repaid under the laws of the State of California heretofore enacted. "(b) The State of California is authorized to fix, charge, and collect tolls for the use of such bridge to pay the costs of engineering, planning, constructing, reconstructing, making alterations, additions, betterments, improvements, and extensions (including reasonable interest, financing, and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), and the costs of maintaining, repairing, and operating of not to exceed two additional highway crossings across the Bay of San Francisco and their approaches. The State of California is also authorized to fix, charge, and collect tolls for the use of such additional highway crossing or crossings. After a fund shall have been provided from the tolls collected for the use of the bridge referred to in the first section of this Act and from tolls charged for the use of such additional highway crossing or crossings, sufficient to pay all costs referred to in clauses (2) and (3) of subsection (a) and also all costs of such additional highway crossing or crossings and their approaches (including the costs of all reconstruction, alterations, additions, betterments, improvements, and extensions thereof and all interest, financing, and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), such bridge and such additional highway crossing or crossings shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls, or the rates of toll shall thereafter be adjusted so as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of such bridge and such additional highway crossing or crossings, and their approaches, under economical management. An accurate record of the costs of such bridge and such highway crossing or crossings, and their approaches, the 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." Approved July 27, 1953. P u b l i c Law 155

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CHAPTER 250

AN ACT Directing the conveyance of certain property to the city of Rupert, Idaho.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, without consideration, to the city of Rupert, Idaho, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands described in section 2 of this Act: Provided, That such conveyance shall be subject to the continued use, without payment of ground or other rental therefor, of the improvements and necessary land presently used for veterans' temporary housing project IDA-V-10147, for so long as they may be needed, under the contract between the city of Rupert and the United States for such project, it being understood that the

July 28, 1953 [S. 122]

Rupert, Idaho. Conveyance.

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