An Act authorizing the reconstruction, enlargement, and extension of the bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Rock Island, Illinois
PL 84-682 (S.2091), enacted 07/11/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 682-JULY 11, 1956 
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performance of official business shall be paid an allowance to be estab-
lished by the department or establishment concerned not to exceed 
the expense required to be incurred by them in order to obtain their 
commission from and after January 1,1955. 
SEC. 2. Funds available to the departments and establishments of 
the Federal Government and the municipal government of the District 
of Columbia for personal services or general administrative expenses 
shall be available to carry out the purposes of this Act, 
SEC. 3. This Act may be cited as the "Notaries Public Expense Act 
of 1955". 
Approved July 11, 1956. 
Public Law 682 
CHAPTER 555 
July 11. 1956 
AN ACT 
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Authorizing the reconstruction, enlargement, and extension of the bridge across 
the Mississippi River at or near Rock Island, Illinois. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
stmctitn.* ''*'^*'"' United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the first section 
Rock Island, 111. of the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the city of Rock Island, 
Illinois, or its assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge 
across the Mississippi River at or near Rock Island, Illinois, and to a 
place at or near the city of Davenport, Iowa", approved March 18, 
52 Stat. 110. 
1938, is amended by inserting " ( a ) " immediately after "That" and 
by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(b) The city of Rock Island, Illinois, or any State or political 
subdivision thereof which may have acquired the bridge constructed 
pursuant to the subsection (a) of this section, is hereby authorized, 
subject to the prior approval of the plans by the Chief of Engineers 
and the Secretary of the Army, to reconstruct and enlarge such bridge 
and to reconstruct, enlarge, and extend the approaches to such bridge, 
including, but not limiting the generality of the foregoing, the alter-
ing, widening, laying out, opening, or constructing of any streets, 
avenues, or boulevards within or without any municipality deemed 
necessary by said city, or any State, public agency, or political sub-
division that may take over or acquire said bridge in order to provide 
adequate traffic regulations and approach or approaches to the said 
bridge: Provided^ That such approaches shall include only those 
necessary portions of streets, avenues, and boulevards which are 
directly connected with the bridge, or which are located immediately 
adjacent thereto, and whose principal use is to provide access to the 
bridge." 
SEC. 2. Section 2 of such Act of March 18, 1938, is amended by 
inserting "(including reconstructing, enlarging, and extending such 
bridge and its approaches)" after "and its approaches". 
SEC, 3. Section 4 of such Act of March 18,1938, is amended to read 
as follows: 
"SEC. 4. In fixing the rates of toll to be charged for the use of such 
bridge the same shall be so adjusted as to provide a fund sufficient to 
pay for the reasonable cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating 
the bridge and its approaches (including the reasonable cost of recon-
structing, enlarging, and extending such bridge and its approaches) 
under economical management, and to provide a sinking fund suffi-
cient to amortize the cost of such bridge and its approaches, including 
reasonable interest and financing cost, as soon as possible, under reason-
able charges, but within a period of not to exceed thirty years from 
the completion of the reconstruction, enlargement, and extension of 
Rates of toll. 
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such bridge and its approaches as provided in subsection (b) of the first 
section of this Act. 
After a sinking fund sufficient for such amortiza-
tion shall have been so provided, such bridge shall thereafter be main-
tained and operated free of tolls in accordance with such arrangement 
, 
as may be agreed upon by the city of Rock Island, Illinois, or its as-
signs, and the State highway departments or other appropriate agen-
cies of the States of Iowa and Illinois. An accurate record of the cost 
of the bridge and its approaches; the expenditures for maintaining, re-
pairing, and operating the same; the expenditures for recontructing, 
enlarging, and extending the same; and all of the daily tolls collected 
shall be available for the information of all persons interested." 
Approved July 11, 1956. 
Public Law 683 
CHAPTER 556 
AN A C T 
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To authorize the charging of tolls for transit over the ^Manette Bridge in 
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Bremerton, Washington. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hou,^e of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwith- sJ^^/rton.^i'^!' 
standing any provision to the contrary contained in the Act entitled 
TOIIS. 
"An Act granting the consent of Congress to W. E. Buell, of Seattle, 
Washington, to construct a bridge across Poi't Washington Narrows 
within the city of Bremerton in the State of Washington", approved 
June 14, 1926 (44 Stat. 744), authority is hereby granted to the 
Washington Toll Bridge Authority as an agency of the State of 
Washington to fix and charge tolls over the bridge constructed pur-
suant to such Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Manette Bridge"). 
SEC. 2. The rates of the tolls authorized by the first section of this 
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Act shall be so adjusted that the amounts collected from the tolls on 
the Manette Bridge together with the amounts collected from the 
tolls imj)osed on not more than one additional bridge hereafter to be 
constructed by such Authority adjacent to the Manette Bridge and 
across Port Washington Narrows from within the city of Bremerton, 
AYashington, will provide (a) a fund sufficient to pay the cost of the 
maintenance and operation of both such bridges, and (b) a sinking 
fund sufficient to amortize the cost of reconstructing and improving 
the Manette Bridge and of constructing such additional bridge and 
the approaches thereto, including interest and financing costs, within 
a period of not more than thirty years after the date such recon-
struction, or construction and improvement is commenced, whichever 
first occurs. After there has been collected from such tolls an amount 
sufficient to provide such funds, the bridges shall be maintained and 
operated free of tolls. 
Approved July 11, 1956. 
Public Law 684 
CHAPTER 557 
AN ACT 
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To authorize adjustment, in the public interest, of rentals under leases entered 
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into for the provision of commercial reci'eational facilities at the Clark Hill 
Reservoir. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Chief of ervii^'* "*" ^**" 
Engineers, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Army, is