approaches shall have been provided, such bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls, or the rates of tolls shall thereafter be so adjusted as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount necessary for the proper care, repair, maintenance, and operation of the bridge and its approaches. An accurate record of the amount paid for the bridge and its approaches, the expenditures for operating, repairing, and maintaining the same, and of daily tolls collected shall be kept and shall be available for the information of all persons interested. The provisions of sections 2 and 3 of this Act shall not be applicable in the event that the bridge constructed under authority hereof shall be designed, constructed, and used for railway or combined railway and highway purposes and connection be made or provided for between the same and a carrier on the mainland subject to the Interstate Commerce Act. SEC. 4. The Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company, its successors and assigns, shall within ninety days after the completion of such bridge file with the Secretary of War a sworn itemized statement showing the actual original cost of constructing such bridge and its approaches, the actual cost of acquiring any interest in real property necessary therefor, and the actual financing and promotion cost. The Secretary of War may at any time within three years after the completion of such bridge investigate the actual cost of constructing the same, and for such purpose the said Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Čompany, its successors and assigns, shall make available all of its records in connection with the financing and the construction thereof. The findings of the Secretary of War as to the actual original cost of the bridge shall be conclusive, subject only to review in a court of equity for fraud or gross mistake. SEC. 5. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act is hereby granted to Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company, its successors and assigns, and any corporation to which or any person to whom such rights, powers, and privileges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or who shall acquire the same by mortgage foreclosure, or otherwise, is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise the same as fully as though conferred herein directly upon such corporation or person. SEC. 6. That, the United States having discontinued and sold to the city of Mobile, Alabama, the military reservation on Dauphin Island and having no further present interest in the acquisition of lands on said island, the conditions and options to repurchase reserved to the United States by that certain deed dated, to wit, September 18, 1911, executed by the Assistant Secretary of War, conveying certain lands to said Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company under authority of the Act approved March 4, 1911, are hereby waived and discharged. SEC. 7, The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, February 25, 1927. [PUBLIC-No. 605-75TH CONGRESS) [CHAPTER 363-3D SESSION) AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge and causeway across the water between the mainland, at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, Alabama. 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 and causeway between the mainland at or near Cedar Point and Dauphin Island, Alabama, heretofore authorized to be built by Dauphin Island Railway and Harbor Company, its successors and assigns (Mobile County, Alabama, and Highway Bridge Commission, Incorporated, an Alabama corporation, and Alabama Bridge Commission, an agency of the State of Alabama, transferees), as last extended by Public Law Numbered 138, Seventy-fifth Congress, approved June 9, 1937, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from the date of approval of this Act. SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, June 14, 1938. BRIDGE OVER PEARL RIVER, AT OR NEAR GEORGETOWN, MISS. JUNE 28, 1939.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. PATRICK, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5785] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5785) granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi to construct and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Georgetown, Miss., having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill, as amended, do pass. The amendment is as follows: Amend the title so as to read: A bill granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Pearl River, at or near Georgetown, Mississippi. The bill has the approval of the War and Agriculture Departments, as will appear by the letters attached. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 15, 1939. Respectfully returned to the chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. So far as the interests committed to this Department are concerned, I know of no objection to the favorable consideration of the accompanying bill, H. R. 5785, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi to construct and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Georgetown, Miss. A minor correction in the title of the bill has been indicated in red thereon. A similar report on S. 2187, an identical bill, was submitted to the Bureau of the Budget, which reported that there would be no objection to its submission to the committee. HARRY H. WOODRING, H. Repts., 76–1, vol. 5- -23 Hon. CLARENCE F. LEA, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Washington, May 19, 1939. Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives. DEAR MR. LEA: Careful consideration has been given to the bill, H. R. 5785, transmitted with your letter of April 27, with request for a report thereon and such views relative thereto as the Department might desire to communicate. This bill would grant the consent of Congress for the State of Mississippi to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across Pearl River at or near Georgetown, Miss. The bill is without objection so far as this Department is concerned. Upon reference of this matter to the Bureau of the Budget, as required by Budget Circular 344, the Director thereof advised the Department of Agriculture under date of May 15, 1939, that there would be no objection on the part of that office to the submission of this report to Congress. BRIDGE OVER THE PEARL RIVER, AT OR NEAR JUNE 28, 1939.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. PATRICK, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5786] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5786) granting the consent of Congress to the State of Mississippi or Madison County, Miss., to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across Pearl River at or near Ratliffs Ferry in Madison County, Miss., having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Page 1, line 6, after "River", insert "at a point suitable to the interests of navigation,". The bill has the approval of the War and Agriculture Departments, as will appear by the letters attached. Hon. CLARENCE F. LEA, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, DEAR MR. LEA: Careful consideration has been given to the bill, H. R. 5786, transmitted with your letter of April 27 with request for a report thereon and such views relative thereto as the Department might desire to communicate. This bill would grant the consent of Congress for the State of Mississippi or Madison County, Miss., to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across Pearl River at or near Ratliffs Ferry, in Madison County, Miss. The bill is without objection so far as this Department is concerned. Upon reference of this matter to the Bureau of the Budget, as required by Budget Circular 344, the Director thereof advised the Department of Agriculture |