pledged to such uses and to the application thereof as hereinafter in this section required. After payment or provision for payment therefrom of all such cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating and the reservation of an amount of money estimated to be sufficient for the same purpose during an ensuing period of not more than six months, the remainder of tolls collected shall be placed in the sinking fund, at intervals to be determined by the Commission prior to the issuance of the bonds. An accurate record of the cost of the bridge 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. The Commission shall classify in a reasonable way all traffic over the bridge, so that the tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted by it as to be uniform in the application thereof to all traffic falling within any such reasonable class, regardless of the status or character of any person, firm, or corporation participating in such traffic, and shall prevent all use of such bridge for traffic except upon payment of the tolls so fixed and adjusted. No toll shall be charged officials or employees of the Commission or of the Government of the United States or any State, county, or municipality in the United States while in the discharge of their duties or municipal police or fire departments when engaged in the proper work of any such department. SEC. 6. Nothing herein contained shall require the Commission or its successors to maintain or operate any ferry or ferries purchased hereunder, but in the discretion of the Commission or its successors and ferry or ferries so purchased, with the appurtenances and property thereto connected and belonging, may be sold or otherwise disposed of or may be abandoned and/or dismantled whenever in the judgment of the Commission or its successors it may seem expedient so to do. The Commission and its successors may fix such rates of toll for the use of such ferry or ferries as it may deem proper, subject to the same conditions as are hereinabove required as to tolls for traffic over the bridge. All tolls collected for the use of the ferry or ferries and the proceeds of any sale or disposition of any ferry or ferries shall be used, so far as may be necessary, to pay the cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the same, and any residue thereof shall be paid into the sinking fund hereinabove provided for bonds. An accurate record of the cost of purchasing the ferry or ferries; 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. 7. 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, that part 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 (hereinafter referred to as the Illinois interests) and that part within Kentucky to the Commonwealth of Kentucky or any municipality or agency thereof as may be authorized by or pursuant to law to accept the same (hereinafter referred to as the Kentucky interests), under the condition that the bridge shall thereafter be free of tolls and be properly maintained, operated, and repaired by the Illinois interests and the Kentucky interests, as may be agreed upon; but if either the Illinois interests or the Kentucky interests shall not be authorized to accept or shall not accept the same under such conditions, then the bridge shall continue to be owned, maintained, operated, and repaired by the Commission, and the rates of tolls shall 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, until such time as both the Illinois interests and the Kentucky interests shall be authorized to accept and shall accept such conveyance under such conditions. If at the time of such conveyance the Commission or its successors shall not have disposed of such ferry or ferries, the same shall be disposed of by sale as soon as practicable, at such price and upon such terms as the Commission or its successors may determine. (a) Notwithstanding any restriction or limitation imposed by the Act entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes", approved July 11, 1916, or by the Federal Highway Act, or by any Act amendatory of or supplemental to either thereof, the Secretary of Agriculture may extend Federal aid under such Acts, for the construction of said bridge, out of any moneys allocated to the State of Illinois with the consent of the Department of Public Works and Buildings of said State, and out of any moneys allocated to the State of Kentucky with the consent of the State Highway Commission of said State. SEC. 8. For the purpose of carrying into effect the objects stated in this Act, there is hereby created the Cairo Bridge Commission, and by that name, style, and title said body shall have perpetual succession; may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, complain and defend in all courts of law and equity; may make and have a common seal; may purchase or otherwise acquire and hold or dispose of real estate and other property; may accept and receive donations or gifts of money or other property and apply same to the purposes of this Act; and shall have and possess all powers necessary, convenient, or proper for carrying into effect the objects stated in this Act. The Commission shall consist of James S. Johnson, John C. Fisher, Reed Green, and Ray Williams, of the city of Cairo, Illinois, and M. C. Anderson, of Ballard County, Kentucky. Such Commission shall be a body corporate and politic. Each member of the Commission shall qualify within thirty days after the approval of this Act by filing in the office of the Secretary of Agriculture an oath that he will faithfully perform the duties imposed upon him by this Act, and each person appointed to fill a vacancy shall qualify in like manner within thirty days after his appointment. Any vacancy occurring in said Commission by reason of failure to qualify as above provided, or by reason of death or resignation, shall be filled by the Secretary of Agriculture. Before the issuance of bonds as hereinabove provided, each member of the Commission shall give such bond as may be fixed by the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture, conditioned upon the faithful performance of all duties required by this Act. The Commission shall elect a chairman and a vice chairman from its members, and may establish rules and regulations for the government of its own business. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 9. The Commission shall have no capital stock or shares of interest or participation, and all revenues and receipts thereof shall be applied to the purposes specified in this Act. The members of the Commission shall be entitled to a per diem compensation for their services of $10 for each day actually spent in the business of the Commission, but the maximum compensation of the Chairman in any year shall not exceed $2,500 and of each other member shall not exceed $500. The members of the Commission shall also be entitled to receive traveling-expense allowance of 10 cents a mile for each mile actually traveled on the business of the Commission. The Commission may employ a secretary, treasurer, engineers, attorneys, and such other experts, assistants, and employees as they may deem necessary, who shall be entitled to receive such compensation as the Commission may determine. All salaries and expenses shall be paid solely from the funds provided under the authority of this Act. After all bonds and interest thereon shall have been paid and all other obligations of the Commission paid or discharged, or provision for all such payment shall have been made as hereinbefore provided, and after the bridge shall have been conveyed to the Illinois interests and the Kentucky interests as herein provided, and any ferry or ferries shall have been sold, the Commission shall be dissolved and shall cease to have further existence by an order of the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads made upon his own initiative or upon application of the Commission or any member or members thereof, but only after a public hearing in the city of Cairo, notice of the time and place of which hearing and the purpose thereof shall have been published once, at least thirty days before the date thereof, in a newspaper published in the city of Cairo, and a newspaper published in Ballard County, Kentucky. At the time of such dissolution all moneys in the hands of or to the credit of the Commission shall be divided into two equal parts, one of which shall be paid to said Illinois interests and the other to said Kentucky interests. SEC. 10. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize or permit the Commission or any member thereof to create any obligation or incur any liability other than such obligations and liabilities as are dischargeable solely from funds provided by this Act. No obligation created or liability incurred pursuant to this A t shall be an obligation or liability of any member or members of the Commission but shall be chargeable solely to the funds herein provided, nor shall any indebtedness created pursuant to this Act be an indebtedness of the United States. SEC. 11. All provisions of this Act may be enforced, or the violation thereof prevented, by mandamus, injunction, or other appropriate remedy brought by the attorney general for the State of Illinois, the attorney general for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, or the United States district attorney for any district in which the bridge may be located in part, in any court having competent jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties. I SEC. 12. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, April 13, 1934. [PUBLIC NO. 35-74тH CONGRESS] [S. 1308] AN ACT To extend the times for commencing and completing the construction of a bridge across the Ohio 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 the bridge across the Ohio River at or near Cairo, Illinois, authorized to be built by the Cairo Bridge Commission by the Act of Congress entitled "An Act creating the Cairo Bridge Commission and authorizing said Commission and its successors to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Ohio River at or near Cairo, Illinois", approved April 13, 1934, are hereby extended one and three years, respectively, from April 13, 1935. SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. H. Repts., 75–8, vol. 2-80 75TH CONGRESS 3d Session } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { REPORT No. 2344 CREATING THE WHITE COUNTY BRIDGE COMMISSION AND AUTHORIZING IT TO PURCHASE, MAINTAIN, AND OPERATE A BRIDGE ACROSS THE WABASH RIVER AT OR NEAR NEW HARMONY, IND. MAY 12, 1938.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. CHAPMAN, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 10076] The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 10076) to create the White County Bridge Commission; defining the authority, power, and duties of said Commission; and authorizing said Commission or its successors and assigns to purchase, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Wabash River at or near New Harmony, Ind., having considered and amended the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it pass with the following amendment: Page 2, line 3, following the comma after "Indiana" insert the following: 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. The bill has the approval of the War and Agriculture Departments, as will appear by the letters attached. Hon. CLARENCE F. LEA, WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 8, 1938. Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. DEAR MR. LEA: Reference is made to your letter of March 31, 1938, requesting the views of the Department on H. R. 10076, Seventy-fifth Congress, third session, entitled "A bill to create the White County Bridge Commission; defining the authority, power, and duties of said Commission; and authorizing said Commission and its successors and assigns to purchase, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Wabash River at or near New Harmony, Ind." The primary purpose of the bill is recited in the title. The authority for the structure is an act of Congress approved May 1, 1928, wherein the right to alter, |