An Act authorizing E. B. Reyna, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande, at or near Los Ebanos, Texas
PL 84-98 (H.R.2984), enacted 06/28/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 98-JUNE 28, 1955 
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SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sufficient 
sum to pay the salaries and expenses of the representative of the United 
States appointed hereunder: Provided^ That such representative, if 
otherwise employed by the United States while so employed, shall not 
receive additional salary in the appointment hereunder. 
Approved June 28, 1955. 
Appropriation. 
Salary. 
Public Law 98 
CHAPTER 193 
AN ACT 
Authorizing E. B. Reyna, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, to con-
struct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the Rio Grande, at or near 
Los Ebanos, Texas. 
June 28, 1955 
[H. R. 2984] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to 
facilitate international commerce, improve the postal service, and other 
purposes, E. B. Reyna, his heirs, legal representatives, and assigns, 
be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a 
toll bridge and approaches thereto across the Rio Grande, so far 
as the United States has jurisdiction over the waters of such river, 
at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Los Ebanos, 
Texas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An 
Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters", 
approved March 23, 1906, subject to the conditions and limitations 
contained in this Act, and subject further to the approval of the 
International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and 
Mexico, and also subject to the approval of the proper authorities 
in the Republic of Mexico to the construction, operation, and mainte-
nance of such bridge. 
SEC. 2. There is hereby conferred upon E. B. Reyna, his heirs, legal 
representatives, and assigns, all such rights and powers to enter upon 
lands and to acquire, occupy, possess, and use real estate and other 
property in the State of Texas needed for the location, construction, 
operation, and maintenance of such bridge and its approaches, as are 
possessed by bridge corporations for bridge purposes, upon making 
]ust compensation therefor to be ascertained and paid according to 
the laws of such State of Texas. 
SEC. 3. The said E. B. Reyna, his heirs, legal representatives, and 
assigns, is hereby authorized to fix and charge tolls for transit over 
such bridge in accordance with any laws of the State of Texas or the 
United States applicable thereto, and the rates of toll so fixed shall 
be the legal rates until changed under the authority contained in the 
Act of March 23,1906. 
SEC. 4. The right to sell, assign, transfer, and mortgage all the 
rights, powers, and privileges conferred by this Act to any public 
agency, or to an international bridge authority or commission, is 
hereby granted to E. B. Reyna, his heirs, or legal representatives; 
and any such public agency, international bridge authority, or inter-
national bridge commission to which such rights, powers, and privi-
leges may be sold, assigned, or transferred, or which 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 public agency, international bridge author-
ity, or international bridge commission. 
SEC. 5. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved June 28, 1955. 
E. B. Reyna. 
Bridge construc-
tion authority. 
34 Stat. 84. 
33 u s e 491-498. 
Use of lands,etc. 
Tolls. 
T r a n s f er 
rights, etc. 
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