An Act granting the consent of Congress to a supplemental compact or agreement between the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, authorizing the Delaware River Joint Commission to construct, finance, operate, maintain, and own a vehicular tunnel or tunnels under, or an additional bridge across, the Delaware River and defining certain functions, powers, and duties of said Commission, and for other purposes
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referred to as "facility") heretofore or hereafter established, con-
trolled, constructed or acquired by the commission, and combine the 
tolls or revenues therefrom, and to fix, charge, and collect tolls or 
other charges for the use of such facilities so combined, and to use 
or pledge any such tolls or other charges for purposes of financing, 
acquiring, constructing, operating or maintaining any facility or 
facilities, all to the extent provided by and in accordance with the 
provisions of the aforesaid compact or agreement as amended and 
supplemented, as consented to by the Congress, and the laws of the 
State of New Jersey and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with respect 
thereto or to said commission: Provided^ That, as a specific exemption 
from the provisions of section 506 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, 
as amended, the collection of tolls for the use of any bridge hereafter 
constructed or acquired by the commission, in excess of amounts 
reasonably required for the operation and maintenance thereof under 
economical management, shall cease at the expiration of fifty years 
from the date of the opening to traffic by the commission of the bridge 
latest constructed or acquired by said commission after the effective 
date of this Act, and the rate of such tolls shall be subject to the pro-
visions of section 503 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, as amended. 
SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
60 Stat. 847. 
33 u s e 526. 
Public Law 574 
CHAPTER 922 
July 17, 1952 
[H. R. 8316] 
AN ACT 
Granting the consent of Congress to a supplemental compact or agreement 
between the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
authorizing the Delaware River Joint Commission to construct, finance, 
operate, maintain and own a vehicular tunnel or tunnels under, or an addi-
tional bridge across, the Delaware River and defining certain functions, 
powers, and duties of said Commission, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the consent 
Delaware River 
of Congress is hereby given to the supplemental compact or agree- 
"suppiem'^i"VTi 
ment set forth below, and to each and every term and provision valJI^^a^ NeJTjeJ-
thereof: Provided^ That nothing therein contained shall be construed ^ev- ^ 
to affect, impair, or diminish any right, power, or jurisdiction of the gress.^* 
United States or of any court, department, board, bureau, officer, or 
official of the United States, over or in regard to any navigable waters, 
or any commerce between the States or with foreign countries, or 
any bridge, railroad, highway, pier, wharf, or other facility or 
improvement, or any other person, matter, or thing, forming the 
subject matter of said supplemental compact or agreement or other-
wise affected by the terms thereof: Provided further^ That the consent 
of Congress hereby given shall not be construed to affect in any 
manner w^hatsoever the application of the internal-revenue laws of 
the United States to the bonds or other securities or obligations 
issued by the commission, their transfer and the income therefrom 
(including any profits made on the sale thereof) : 
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH OF 
PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY 
A M E N D I N G A N D S U P P L E M E N T I N G T H E A G R E E M E N T E N T I T L E D 
A G R E E M E N T 
B E T W E E N T H E C O M M O N W E A L T H O F PENNSYLVANIA AND THE STATE OF 
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NEW JERSEY CREATING T H E DELAWARE RIVER J O I N T COMMISSION AS A 
BODY CORPORATE AND POLITIC AND DEFINING ITS POWERS AND DUTIES," 
AUTHORIZING AND EMPOWERING T H E DELAWARE RIVER J O I N T COMMIS-
SION 
TO 
CONSTRUCT, 
FINANCE, 
OPERATE, 
MAINTAIN 
AND 
OWN 
A 
VEHICULAR T U N N E L UNDER, OR AN ADDITIONAL BRIDGE ACROSS, 
T H E 
DELAWARE 
RIVER 
AND 
DEFINING 
CERTAIN 
FUNCTIONS, 
POWERS 
AND 
DUTIES OF SAID COMMISSION, 
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey 
do hereby solemnly covenant and agree each with the other, as follows: 
The "Agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and 
the State of New Jersey creating the Delaware River Joint Commis-
sion as a body corporate and politic and defining its powers and 
duties," which was executed on behalf of the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania by its Governor on the first day of July, one thousand nine 
hundred and thirty-one, and on behalf of the State of New Jersey 
by the New Jersey Interstate Bridge Commission by its members on 
the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, and 
which was consented to by the Congress of the United States by Public 
Resolution Number Twenty-six, being chapter two hundred fifty-
eight of the Public Laws, Seventy-second Congress, approved the 
47 Stat. 308. 
fourteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, 
is amended and supplemented by adding thereto, as a part thereof, 
following Article X I I thereof, a new article reading as follows: 
ARTICLE XII-A 
Bridge 
OT 
tunnel 
(1) In addition to other public purposes provided for it and 
nl. ^* ^'^ ar ra - Q^J^^J. pQ^rgpg aj^(j duties conferred upon it, and not in limitation 
thereof, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other article 
hereof, the Delaware River Joint Commission, by whatever name 
said commission may be designated, shall have among its authorized 
purposes, and it shall have the power and duty to effectuate, the con-
struction, operation and maintenance of a bridge for vehicular traffic 
across the Delaware river, between a point or points within a one-
mile radius of Morgan street and Broadway in the city of Camden, 
New Jersey, and a point or points within a one-mile radius of Oregon 
avenue and Swanson street in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
with such approaches thereto and highway connections as may be 
necessary or desirable, or, in lieu of such bridge, a tunnel or tunnels 
>
; for vehicular traffic under the Delaware river, between a point or 
points within a one-mile radius of Morgan street and Broadway in 
the city of Camden, New Jersey, and a point or points within a one-
mile radius of Oregon avenue and Swanson street in the city of 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with such approaches thereto and high-
way connections as ma}'^ be necessary or desirable. 
(2) For the effectuation of any of its purposes authorized by this 
article, the commission is hereby granted, in addition to any other 
powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it, power and authority 
to acquire in its name by purchase or otherwise, on such terms and 
conditions and in such manner as it may deem proper, or by the exer-
cise of the power of eminent domain any land and other property 
which it may determine is reasonably necessary for the bridge or 
tunnel referred to in this article or for the construction of such 
approaches thereto or highway connections as the commission shall 
deem necessary and any and all rights, title and interest in such 
land and other property, including public lands, parks, playgrounds, 
reservations, highways, or parkways, owned by or in which any county, 
city, borough, town, township, village, or other political sutjdivision 
of the State of New Jersey or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
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has any right, title or interest, or parts thereof or rights therein and 
any fee simple absolute or any lesser interest in private property, 
and any fee simple absolute in, easements upon, or the benefit of restric-
tions upon, abutting property to preserve and protect such bridge or 
tunnel, the approaches thereto or highway connections. Upon the 
exercise of the power of eminent domain under this paragraph, the 
compensation to be paid with regard to property located in the State 
of New Jersey shall be ascertained and paid in the manner provided 
in chapter one of Title 20 of the Kevised Statutes of New Jersey in 
so far as the provisions thereof are applicable and not inconsistent 
with the provisions contained in this paragraph, and with regard 
to property located in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall be 
ascertained and paid in the manner provided by any applicable con-
demnation law in force in such Commonwealth. 
The commission 
may join in separate subdivisions in one petition or complaint the 
descriptions of any number of tracts or parcels of land or property 
to be condemned and the names of any number of owners and other 
parties who may have an interest therein and all such land or property 
included in said petition or complaint may be condemned in a single 
proceeding; provided^ however^ that separate awards shall be made 
for each tract or parcel of land or property; and promded 
further^ 
that each of said tracts or parcels of land or property lies wholly in 
or has a substantial part of its value lying wholly within the same 
county. 
(3) For the effectuation of any of its authorized purposes, the com-
mission is hereby granted the following powers in addition to any 
other powers heretofore or hereafter granted to it: 
(a) In connection with the borrowing of money upon its bonds or 
other obligations, to make, enter into and perform any and all such 
covenants and agreements with the holders of such bonds or other 
obligations as the commission may determine to be necessary or desir-
able for the security and payment thereof, including without limita-
tion of the foregoing, covenants and agreements as to the management 
and operation of any property or facility owned or controlled by it, 
the tolls, rents, rates or other charges to be established, levied, made 
and collected for any use of any such property or facility, or the appli-
cation, use and disposition of the proceeds of any bonds or other 
obligations of the commission or the proceeds of any such tolls, rents, 
rates or other charges or any other revenues or moneys of the 
commission. 
(b) To pledge for the security or payment of any bonds or other 
obligations of the commission any moneys of the commission either 
presently received or in hand or to be received in the future, or both. 
(c) To make expenditures anywhere in the United States and for-
eign countries, to pay commissions, and hire or contract with experts 
and consultants, and otherwise to do indirectly anything which the 
commission may do directly. 
(d) To have and exercise such additional powers as may hereafter 
be delegated to or imposed upon it from time to time by act of the 
Legislature of either signatory State concurred in by act of the Legis-
lature of the other. 
(4) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this article, the com-
mission shall not, in connection with the bridge or tunnel referred to 
in this article, construct any approach or highway connection in the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania unless and until the Department of 
Highways of said Commonwealth shall have filed with the com-
mission its written consent to such construction, and the commis-
sion shall not, in connection with said bridge or tunnel, construct 
any approach or highway connection in the State of New Jersey unless 
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and until the State Highway Department of said State shall have 
filed with the commission its written consent to such construction. 
As used in this paragraph the term "approach" or "highway connec-
tion" means and includes any highway, road or structure for passage 
of vehicles, located inland of any of the established bulkhead lines 
of the Delaware river, including any highway, road or structure for 
passage of vehicles necessary to create access to the bridge or tunnel 
referred to in this article or to connect such bridge or tunnel with a 
highway system or other traffic facilities, or necessary to facilitate the 
flow of traffic in the vicinity of such bridge or tunnel, 
fvi^d**^^^*'*'*'^* 
(^) Before commencing construction of the bridge or tunnel 
referred to in this article, the commission shall set aside in a special 
reserve fund to be held by it the sum of twenty-two million dollars 
($22,000,000.00) or such lesser sum as the Governors of the signatory 
States may in writing approve as sufficient for the purposes of this 
paragraph. 
The moneys in said special reserve fund may be expended 
and used by the commission for the construction, maintenance and 
operation of approaches and highway connections, and no moneys 
in said fund shall be applied to any purpose except (1) such construc-
tion, maintenance or operation, (2) temporary investment pending 
some other authorized application or (3) any other purpose authorized 
by the commission and approved in writing by the Governors of the 
signatory States. 
The Governors for the time being of the signatory 
States are authorized from time to time to make and sign any and 
all approvals contemplated by this paragraph and any such approvals 
so made and signed by both Governors shall be binding upon the 
signatory States and the said Governors and their successors, and 
shall not be revoked or amended except with the consent of the 
commission. 
(6) Any pledge of tolls, rates, rents or revenues, or any part 
thereof, or of any moneys of the commission made or created by the 
commission pursuant to Article VIII or any other provision hereof 
shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made; 
the revenues or other moneys so pledged and thereafter received by 
the commission shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge 
without any physical delivery thereof or further act; the lien of any 
such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having 
claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the com-
mission, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof; 
and neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which such 
a pledge is created need be filed or recorded except in the records 
of the commission. 
(7) The effectuation of any of the purposes authorized by this 
article, and the exercise or performance by the commission of any of 
its powers or duties in connection with effectuation of such purpose, 
shall not be subject to any restrictions, limitations or provisions pro-
vided for or set forth in Article X I I hereof. 
The bridge or tunnel 
referred to in this article may be constructed or erected by the com-
mission notwithstanding the terms and provisions of any other agree-
ment between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of 
New Jersey. 
Except as may hereafter be otherwise provided in con-
formity with Article I X hereof with respect to specific properties 
designated by action of the Legislatures of both of the signatory 
States, no property or facility owned or controlled by the commission 
shall be acquired from it by any exercise of powers of condemnation 
or eminent domain. 
(8) The commission shall not construct or erect the bridge or tunnel 
referred to in this article unless and until the Governor of the State 
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751 
of New Jersey and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania shall have filed with the commission their written consents to 
such construction or erection. 
I N WITNESS WHEREOF, this 23rd 
day of August, 1951, ALFRED E . 
DRISCOLL has affixed his signature 
hereto as Governor of the State 
of New Jersey and caused the 
great seal of the State to be 
attached thereto. 
ALFRED E . DRISCOLL 
Governor, 
State of New Jersey 
(Great Seal) 
Attest; 
I N WITNESS WHEREOF, this 30th 
day of August, 1951, JOHN S. 
FINE has affixed his signature 
hereto as Governor of the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania and 
caused the great seal of the Com-
monwealth to be attached thereto. 
JOHN S. FINE 
Governor, 
Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania 
(Great Seal) 
LLOYD B . MARSH 
Lloyd B. Marsh 
Secretary of State 
Attest: 
GENE D . SMITH 
Gene D. Smith 
Secretary of the 
Commonwealth 
SEC. 2. Subject to the provisions of the compact or agreement 
between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New 
Jersey creating the Delaware River Joint Commission, as amended 
and supplemented, the Delaware River Joint Commission by what-
ever name said commission may be designated (herein called the 
"commission") is hereby authorized to construct, finance, operate, 
maintain and own a bridge for vehicular traffic across the Delaware 
River, between a point or points within a one-mile radius of Morgan 
Street and Broadway in the city of Camden, New Jersey, and a point 
or points within a one-mile radius of Oregon Avenue and Swanson 
Street in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with such approaches 
thereto and highway connections as may be necessary or desirable, or, 
in lieu of such bridge, a tunnel or tunnels for vehicular traffic under 
the Delaware River, between a point or points within a one-mile radius 
of Morgan Street and Broadway in the city of Camden, New Jersey, 
and a point or points within a one-mile radius of Oregon Avenue and 
Swanson Street in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with such 
approaches thereto and highway connections as may be necessary or 
desirable, in accordance with the applicable provisions of section 502 
(b) of the General Bridge Act of 1946 and section 10 of the Rivers and 
Harbors Act of 3 March, 1899 (33 U. S. C., sec. 403). 
SEC. 3. Notwithstanding any limitation on the collection of tolls 
as prescribed by section 506 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, as 
amended, or as prescribed by any Act heretofore enacted by the Con-
gress authorizing or consenting to the construction or acquisition of 
any bridge constructed or acquired by the commission, the commis-
sion is hereby authorized to fix, charge, and collect tolls or other 
charges for tne use of any bridge or tunnel heretofore or hereafter 
established, controlled, constructed, or acquired by the commission, 
and to combine any two or more of such bridges or tunnels, or combine 
any one or more of such bridges or tunnels, with any railroad, rapid-
transit system, or other properties or facilities for transportation, 
terminal or port improvement purposes (each such bridge, tunnel, 
railroad, system, or other property or facility being hereinafter 
referred to as "facility") heretofore or hereafter established, con-
trolled, constructed, or acquired by the commission, and combine the 
tolls or revenues therefrom, and to fix, charge, and collect tolls or other 
charges for the use of such facilities so combined, and to use or pledge 
60 Stat. 847. 
33 u s e 525. 
30 Stat. 1151. 
Tolls. 
60 Stat. 848. 
33 u s e 529. 
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any such tolls or other charges for purposes of financing, acquiring, 
constructing, operating or maintaining any facility or facilities, all to 
the extent provided by and in accordance with the provisions of the 
aforesaid compact or agreement as amended and supplemented, as con-
sented to by the Congress, and the laws of the State of New Jersey 
and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with respect thereto or to said 
commission: Provided^ That as a specific exemption from the provi-
sions of section 506 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, as amended, 
the collection of tolls for the use of any bridge hereafter constructed 
or acquired by the commission, in excess of amounts reasonably 
required for the operation and maintenance thereof under economical 
management, shall cease at the expiration of fifty years from the date 
of the opening to traffic by the commission of the bridge latest con-
structed or acquired by said commission after the effective date of this 
33 use 5
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2
6 * 
-^c^i and the rate of such tolls shall be subject to the provisions of 
section 503 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, as amended. 
SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
Public Law 575 
CHAPTER 923 
July 17. 1952 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 3589] 
To amend title 17 of the United States Code entitled "Copyrights" with respect 
to recording and performing rights in literary works. 
Be it enacted hy the Seinate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Code* amindnl^nf' ^^*^^^ States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) 
61 Stat. 653. * of sectiou 1 of title 17, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows: 
Literary^woriw^^ 
«(c) To deliver, authorize the delivery of, read, or present the copy-
performing rights, righted work in public for profit if it be a lecture, sermon, address or 
similar production, or other nondramatic literary work; to make or 
procure the making of any transcription or record thereof by or from 
which, in whole or in part, it may in any manner or by any method 
be exhibited, delivered, presented, produced, or reproduced; and to 
play or perform it in public for profit, and to exhibit, represent, 
produce, or reproduce it in any manner or by any method whatsoever. 
The damages for the infringement by broadcast of any work referred 
to in this subsection shall not exceed the sum of $100 where the infring-
'f 
^ v
f 
ing broadcaster shows that he was not aware that he was infringing 
and that such infringement could not have been reasonably foreseen; 
and". 
Effective date. 
SEC. 2. Thls Act shall take effect on the 1st day of January 1953. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
Public Law 576 
CHAPTER 924 
July 17, 1952 
^^ ACT 
[H.R. 5734] 
To amend section 3268 of the Internal Revenue Code so as to exempt certain 
recreational facilities from the tax prescribed therein, and for other purposes. 
Be it ena/ited hy the Semite and House of Representatives 
of the 
Tax on bowling United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled, That section 3268 
* 5Vltal!*^723. 
(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (relating to tax on bowling alleys 
26 use 3268. 
^^j^^ billiard and pool tables) is hereby amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new sentence: "The tax imposed under this