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PUBLIC LAWS--CHS. 288-290-JUNE 8, 1940 Maintenance as free bridge after amortiz- ing costs, etc. Record of expendi- tures and receipts. Assignment of pow- ers and privileges. Rights of persons, etc., acquiring such powers and privileges. Reversion of bridge to Burt County. Amendment, etc. After a sinking fund sufficient for amortization shall have been so provided, said bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls. An accurate record of the cost of the bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and operat- ing the same, and the daily tolls collected shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested. SEC. 5 . The right to assign the powers and privileges conferred by this Act by mortgage for the purpose of financing the construction of such bridge is hereby granted to the county of Burt, State of Nebraska, and any person or corporation who shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the rights, powers, and privileges herein granted, to the same extent and as fully as though conferred directly upon such person or corporation, until such time as there shall have been recovered through the toll system an amount equal to the purchase price of such bridge and its approaches together with annual interest on the unpaid amount of such purchase price and the annual costs of maintenance, repair, and operation of such bridge during such period. Such bridge shall thereafter revert to and be maintained and operated by the county of Burt, State of Nebraska, free of tolls. SEC. 6 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 8, 1940. [CHAPTER 289] AN ACT June 8, 1940 [H. R . 8749] To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge [Public, No. 578] across the Missouri River at or near Petersburg, Missouri. Missouri River. Time extended for bridging, at Peters- burg, Mo. 53 Stat. 1238 . Amendment, etc. June 8, 1940 [H. R. 8958] [Public, No. 579] Wayne County, Mich. Easement over cer- tain lands for sewage- disposal line. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River, at or near Petersburg, Missouri, authorized to be built by the county of Howard, Missouri, by an Act of Congress approved August 7, 1939, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from August 7,1940. SEC. 2 . The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 8, 1940. [CHAPTER 290] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant to the county of Wayne, State of Michigan, an easement over certain land of the United States in Wayne County, Michigan, for a sewage-disposal line. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to grant to the county of Wayne, State of Michigan, an easement over a twenty-foot strip of land situ- ated along the Middle Branch of the Rouge River on the southeasterly side thereof across fisheries station property in the east half of the northeast quarter of section 9, township 1 south, range 8 east, North- ville Township, Wayne County, Michigan, for the purpose of main- taining a sewer and sewage facilities thereon. Approved, June 8, 1940. [54 STAT. 258