Chapter 190. Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River on the Lafayette-Celina Road in Clay County, Tennessee
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Chap. 190: Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River on the Lafayette-Celina Road in Clay County, Tennessee. 1928-03-10 190 Chapter 45 Stat. 296 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 190.— An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River on the Lafayette-Celina Road in Clay County, Tennessee.
March 10, 1928.[[H. R. 9139](/us/bill/70/hr/9139).][[Public, No. 145](/us/pl/70/145).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Cumberland River.Tennessee may bridge, in Clay County. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Cumberland River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, on the Lafayette-Celina Road in Clay County, in the State of Tennessee, in accordance with the Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations contained in this Act.
Sec. 2. Rates of toll to provide for operation, sinking fund, etc. If tolls are charged for the use of such bridge, the rates of toll shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to pay the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge and its approaches under economical management, and to provide a sinking fund sufficient to amortize the cost of the bridge and its approaches, including reasonable interest and financing cost, as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of Maintenance as free bridge, etc., on amortizing costs.not to exceed twenty-five years from the completion thereof.
After a sinking fund sufficient for such amortization shall have been so provided, such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls, or the rates of toll shall thereafter be so adjusted as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of the bridge and its Record of expenditures and receipts.approaches under economical management. An accurate record of the costs of the bridge and its 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.
Sec. 3. Amendment. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 10, 1928.
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Granting the consent of Congress to the highway department of the State of Tennessee to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Cumberland River on the Lafayette-Celina Road in Clay County, Tennessee
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