Chapter 208. Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Calion, Arkansas
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Chap. 208: Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Calion, Arkansas. 1928-03-12 208 Chapter 45 Stat. 308 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 208.— An Act Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Calion, Arkansas.
March 12, 1928.[[H. R. 9019](/us/bill/70/hr/9019).][[Public, No. 160](/us/pl/70/160).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Ouachita River.Arkansas may bridge, at Calion. That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Ouachita River at .a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near Calion, within five miles of the bridge of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company, Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84.in the counties of Union and Calhoun in the State of Arkansas, in accordance with the 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 bridge309and 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 not to exceed twenty years from the completion thereof.
After a sinkingMaintenance as free bridge, etc., after amortizing cost. 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 approaches under economical management. An accurate record of the costs of the bridgeRecord of expenditure and receipts. 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. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, March 12, 1928.
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Granting the consent of Congress to the State Highway Commission of Arkansas to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ouachita River at or near Calion, Arkansas
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