PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 318 -JULY 18, 1939
Commission not re-
quired to operate
bridges purchased,
after bonds retired,
etc.
Sale, or other dispo-
sition.
Tollrates.
Record of expendi-
tures and receipts.
Conveyance of in-
terests after payment
of bonds, etc.
Conveyances
to
other interest f a
designated State tai
toaccept.
SEC. 6 . Nothing herein contained shall require the Commission or
its successors to maintain or operate any bridge or bridges purchased
hereunder, if and when all bonds issued for account of such bridge
or bridges shall have been retired or provision for the payment of
interest on and retirement of such bonds from the revenues from
any other bridge or bridges shall have been made at the time of
issuance of such bonds. Any bridge or bridges so purchased, with
appurtenances and property thereto connected and belonging, may
be sold or otherwise disposed of or may be abandoned or dismantled
whenever in the judgment of the Commission or its successors, and
subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Public Roads, Federal
Works Agency, and the United States Secretary of War, it may be
declared expedient so to do, and provisions with respect to and
regulating any such sale, disposal, abandonment, or dismantlement
may be included in proceedings for the issuance and sale of bonds
for account of any such bridge or bridges. The Commission and
its successors may fix such rates of toll for the use of such bridge
or bridges as it may deem proper, subject to the same conditions
as are hereinabove required as to tolls for traffic over the bridge
to be constructed provided tolls shall be fixed and revised from
time to time for traffic over all bridges so as not to adversely reflect
upon the earnings of any bridge or bridges for account of which
bonds may be outstanding. An accurate record of the cost of
purchasing or constructing each such bridge; 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.
SEr.7. (a) After payment of the bonds and interest, or after a
sinking fund sufficient for such payment shall have been provided
and shall be held for that purpose, the Commission shall deliver deeds
or other suitable instruments of conveyance of the interest of the
Commission in and to the bridge or bridges extending between the
State of Iowa and the State of Illinois, that part of said bridge or
bridges within Iowa to the State of Iowa or any municipality or
agency thereof as may be authorized by or pursuant to law to accept
the same (hereafter referred to as the "Iowa interests"), and that
part of said bridge or bridges within Illinois to the State of Illinois
or any municipality or agency thereof as may be authorized by or
pursuant to law to accept the same (hereafter referred to as the
"Illinois interests"); likewise the Commission shall deliver deeds or
other suitable instruments of conveyance of the interest of the Com-
mission in and to any bridge that may cross the Mississippi River
between the city of Dubuque, Iowa, and the State of Wisconsin,
that part of said bridge within Iowa to the State of Iowa or any
municipality or agency thereof as may be authorized by or pursuant
to law to accept the same (hereafter referred to as the "Iowa inter-
ests"), and that part of said bridge within Wisconsin to the State
of Wisconsin or any municipality or agency thereof as may be
authorized by or pursuant to law to accept the same (hereafter
referred to as the "Wisconsin interests"), under the condition that the
bridge or bridges shall thereafter be free of tolls and be properly
maintained, operated, and repaired by the Iowa interests, the Illi-
nois interests, and the Wisconsin interests, as may be agreed upon;
but if the Iowa, Illinois, or Wisconsin interests, as the case may be,
fail to accept, or are not authorized to accept, their respective por-
tions of said bridge or bridges, then the Commission may deliver
deeds, or other suitable instruments or conveyance of said portions,
to any other interest which may accept and may be authorized to
accept the same, under the condition that the bridge or bridges shall
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