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[70 Stat. 521]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 521]

70 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 684-'JULY 11, 1956

521

such bridge and its approaches as provided in subsection (b) of the first section of this Act. After a sinking fund sufficient for such amortization shall have been so provided, such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls in accordance with such arrangement as may be agreed upon by the city of Rock Island, Illinois, or its assigns, and the State highway departments or other appropriate agencies of the States of Iowa and Illinois. An accurate record of the cost of the bridge and its approaches; the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operating the same; the expenditures for recontructing, enlarging, and extending the same; and all of the daily tolls collected shall be available for the information of all persons interested." Approved July 11, 1956.

Public Law 683

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CHAPTER 556 AN ACT

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To authorize the charging of tolls for transit over the Manette Bridge in Bremerton, Washington.

[S. 2712]

Be it enacted by the Senate and Hou,^e of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwith- sJ^^/rton.^i'^!' standing any provision to the contrary contained in the Act entitled TOIIS. "An Act granting the consent of Congress to W. E. Buell, of Seattle, Washington, to construct a bridge across Port Washington Narrows within the city of Bremerton in the State of Washington", approved June 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 744), authority is hereby granted to the Washington Toll Bridge Authority as an agency of the State of Washington to fix and charge tolls over the bridge constructed pursuant to such Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Manette Bridge"). SEC. 2. The rates of the tolls authorized by the first section of this ^ ' * " "^ *""•• Act shall be so adjusted that the amounts collected from the tolls on the Manette Bridge together with the amounts collected from the tolls imposed on not more than one additional bridge hereafter to be constructed by such Authority adjacent to the Manette Bridge and across Port Washington Narrows from within the city of Bremerton, AYashington, will provide (a) a fund sufficient to pay the cost of the maintenance and operation of both such bridges, and (b) a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of reconstructing and improving the Manette Bridge and of constructing such additional bridge and the approaches thereto, including interest and financing costs, within a period of not more than thirty years after the date such reconstruction, or construction and improvement is commenced, whichever first occurs. After there has been collected from such tolls an amount sufficient to provide such funds, the bridges shall be maintained and operated free of tolls. Approved July 11, 1956. Public Law 684

CHAPTER 557

AN ACT To authorize adjustment, in the public interest, of rentals under leases entered into for the provision of commercial recreational facilities at the Clark Hill Reservoir.

JuIvU,i9S6 [S. 3214]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Chief of ervii^'* "*" ^**" Engineers, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Army, is