Chapter 341. 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 projected State highway between Lebanon and Hartsville and Gallatin near Hunters Point, in Wilson and Trousdale Counties, Tennessee
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Chap. 341: 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 projected State highway between Lebanon and Hartsville and Gallatin near Hunters Point, in Wilson and Trousdale Counties, Tennessee. Chapter 341 45 Stat. 416 1928-04-10 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 341.— 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 projected State highway between Lebanon and Hartsville and Gallatin near Hunters Point, in Wilson and Trousdale Counties, Tennessee. April 10, 1928.[[H. R. 9137](/us/bill/70/hr/9137).][[Public, No. 254](/us/pl/70/254).] *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 Wilson and Trousdale Counties.
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 projected State highway between Lebanon and Hartsville and Gallatin near Hunters Point in Wilson and Trousdale Counties, in the State of Tennessee, in Construction.Vol. 34, p. 84. 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 applied to 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 which, together with the sinking fund created from the tolls from other bridges authorized by the law of the State of Tennessee which provides for the construction of the bridge to be built under this Act, shall be sufficient to amortize the bonds issued under such Act, as soon as possible under reasonable charges, but within a period of not to exceed twenty-five years from the completion Maintenance as free bridge, etc., after amortizing costs, etc. 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 Record of expenditures and receipts. bridge and its 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 417 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, April 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 projected State highway between Lebanon and Hartsville and Gallatin near Hunters Point, in Wilson and Trousdale Counties, Tennessee
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