An Act directing the conveyance of certain property to the city of Rupert, Idaho
PL 83-155 (S.122), enacted 07/28/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 155-JULY 28, 1953 
Bay of San Francisco from the Rincon Hill district in San Francisco 
by way of Goat Island to Oakland", approved February 20, 1931, is 
amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 2. (a) The State of California is hereby authorized to fix, 
charge, and collect tolls for the use of the bridge referred to in the 
first section of this Act, at rates so adjusted as (1) to provide a fund 
sufficient to pay the reasonable costs of maintaining, repairing, and 
operating such bridge and its approaches under economical manage-
ment, (2) to pay the costs of such bridge and its approaches (includ-
ing reasonable interest, financing, and refunding costs, and suitable 
reserves), and (3) to repay all sums advanced and required to be 
repaid under the laws of the State of California heretofore enacted. 
"(b) The State of California is authorized to fix, charge, and collect 
tolls for the use of such bridge to pay the costs of engineering, plan-
ning, constructing, reconstructing, making alterations, additions, bet-
terments, improvements, and extensions (including reasonable interest, 
financing, and refunding costs, and suitable reserves), and the costs 
of maintaining, repairing, and operating of not to exceed two addi-
tional highway crossings across the Bay of San Francisco and their 
approaches. The State of California is also authorized to fix, charge, 
and collect tolls for the use of such additional highway crossing or 
crossings. After a fund shall have been provided from the tolls col-
lected for the use of the bridge referred to in the first section of this 
Act and from tolls charged for the use of such additional highway 
crossing or crossings, sufficient to pay all costs referred to in clauses 
(2) and (3) of subsection (a) and also all costs of such additional 
highway crossing or crossings and their approaches 
(including 
the costs of all reconstruction, alterations, additions, betterments, 
improvements, and extensions thereof and all interest, financing, and 
refunding costs, and suitable reserves), such bridge and such addi-
tional highway crossing or crossings shall thereafter be maintained 
and operated free of tolls, or the rates of toll shall thereafter be 
adjusted so as to provide a fund of not to exceed the amount neces-
sary for the proper maintenance, repair, and operation of such 
bridge and such additional highway crossing or crossings, and their 
approaches, under economical management. 
An accurate record of 
the costs of such bridge and such highway crossing or crossings, and 
their 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." 
Approved July 27, 1953. 
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Public Law 155 
CHAPTER 250 
AN ACT 
Directing the conveyance of certain property to the city of Rupert, Idaho. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Atnerica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed, 
without consideration, to the city of Rupert, Idaho, all right, title, 
and interest of the United States in and to the lands described in 
section 2 of this Act: Provided, That such conveyance shall be subject 
to the continued use, without payment of ground or other rental 
therefor, of the improvements and necessary land presently used for 
veterans' temporary housing project IDA-V-10147, for so long as 
they may be needed, under the contract between the city of Rupert 
and the United States for such project, it being understood that the 
July 28, 1953 
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Rupert, Idaho. 
Conveyance. 
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rights and obligations of the United States and the city of Kupert 
under said contract shall not be in any way affected by such transfer: 
And provided further, 
That such conveyance shall be considered a 
purchase of said land for the purpose of, and as having been made 
within any time limitation prescribed in section 601 (b) of Public 
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Law 849, Seventy-sixth Congress, as amended: Provided 
further, 
42use 1581(b). That said lands shall be used for public purposes only. 
SEC. 2. The lands referred to in the first section of this Act are more 
fully described as follows: 
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TRACT 1 
Beginning at a point which is twenty-eight and seven-tenths feet 
north eighty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes east and one thousand 
one hundred and eighty feet north no degrees six minutes west of the 
quarter section corner of sections 20 and 29, township 9 south, range 24 
east, Boise Meridian, Idaho, thence north eighty-nine degrees fifty-
four minutes east seven hundred and ten feet; thence north no degrees 
six minutes west one hundred and thirty-nine and eight-tenths feet; 
thence south eighty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes west seven hundred 
and ten feet; thence south no degrees six minutes east one hundred 
thirty-nine and eight-tenths feet to the point of beginning; containing 
two and twenty-eight one-hundredths acres, more or less. 
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Beginning at a point which is one thousand one hundred seventy-
nine and five-tenths feet north no degrees six minutes east and forty-
three and four-tenths feet south eighty-nine degrees fifty-four minates 
west of the section corner of sections 20, 21, 28, and 29, township 9 
south, range 24 east, Boise Meridian, Idaho; thence south eighty-nine 
degrees fifty-four minutes west nine hundred and ten feet; thence 
north no degrees six minutes east one hundred thirty-nine and seventy-
five one-hundredths feet; thence north eighty-nine degrees 
fifty-four 
minutes east nine hundred and ten feet; thence south no degrees six 
minutes west one hundred thirty-nine and seventy-five one-hundredths 
feet to the point of beginning; containing two and ninety-two one-
hundredths acres, more or less. 
TRACT 3 
Beginning at a point which is forty feet south ho degrees three 
minutes east and one thousand one hundred ninety-one and three-
tenths feet south eighty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes west of the 
quarter section corner of sections 20 and 29, township 9 south, range 24 
east, Boise Meridian, Idaho; thence south no degrees four minutes east 
two thousand five hundred seventy-nine and two-tenths feet; thence 
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south eighty-nine degrees fifty-six minutes west seventy-five feet; 
thence north no degrees four minutes east two thousand five hundred 
seventy-nine and two-tenths feet; thence north eighty-nine degrees 
fifty-four 
minutes east seventy-five feet to the point of beginning; 
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containing four and forty-four one-hundredths acres, more or less. 
The conveyance of this tract shall be subject to the right of the Mini-
doka irrigation district to pump and use the water collected in the 
drain located on the tract, and shall be conditioned upon the release 
of the United States from all responsibility for the maintenance of 
said drain. 
Approved July 28, 1953. 
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