Joint resolution to amend the joint resolution of June 16,1938, creating the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission
PL 83-166 (H.J.Res.253), enacted 07/31/1953

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bursable construction costs relating to that part of the Greenfields 
main canal between station 0 and station 278 (five and twenty-six 
one-hundredths miles) in the amount of $297,752 shall be deducted 
from the obligation undertaken by the Greenfields irrigation district 
in its contract with the United States dated June 22, 1926. 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
Public Law 166 
CHAPTER 285 
juiyai, 1953 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
[H.j. Res. 253] 
iji^ amend the joint resolution of June 16,1938, creating the Niagara Falls Bridge 
Commission. 
N i a g a r a Falls 
B r i d g e 
Conunis-
sion. 
52 Stat. 767. 
I s s u a n c e 
bonds. 
o f 
Resolved iy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of ATnerica in Congress assembled., That the joint resolution 
entitled "Joint resolution creating the Niagara Falls Bridge Commis-
sion and authorizing said CommiGsion and its successors to construct, 
maintain, and operate a bridge across the Niagara River at or near the 
city of Niagara Falls, New York", approved June 16, 1938, as 
amended, is hereby amended by inserting after section 10 the following 
new section: 
"SEC. lOA. In addition to the powers herein conferred upon the 
Commission, it is authorized, subject to the contractual rights of the 
holders of any of its outstanding bonds, to exercise the following 
powers: 
"(1) For the purpose of acquiring, rebuilding, reconstructing, or 
repairing existing bridges and, when hereafter authorized by Act 
or joint resolution of the Congress of the United States, constructing 
new bridges across the Niagara River, at or north of the city of 
Niagara Falls, and for the purpose of refunding bonds of the Com-
mission heretofore or hereafter issued, the Commission may issue 
bonds payable solely from the revenues of all bridges now or hereafter 
operated by the Commission. 
The provisions of section 4 of this joint 
resolution so far as practicable shall apply to the issuance and sale of 
such bonds. 
" (2) The Commission may, in the resolution authorizing the issuance 
of bonds under the authority of this section, covenant with the holders 
of such bonds that, subject to the rights of the holders of any bonds 
of the Commission then outstanding, it will fix rates or tolls for the use 
of the bridges operated by it and adjust such tolls from time to time 
so as to provide a fund sufficient to pay the reasonable cost of main-
taining, repairing, and operating its bridges and the approaches thereto 
under economical management, and to provide a sinking fund suffi-
cient to pay the principal and interest of such bonds as the same shall 
fall due and the redemption or purchase price of all or any thereof 
redeemed or repurchased before maturity and, subject to the rights 
of the holders of any bonds of the Commission issued under the 
provisions of other sections of this joint resolution, all tolls and 
revenues from said bridges are hereby pledged to such uses and to the 
application thereof in the manner provided in the resolution author-
izing the issuance of such bonds. 
"(3) Whenever the Commission shall have issued bonds under the 
authority of this section, title to all bridges, the revenues of which 
shall be pledged for the payment of the principal and interest of such 
bonds, shall remain in the Commission, notwithstanding any other 
provision of this joint resolution, until payment of such bonds and 
the interest thereon or until a sinking fund sufficient for such payment 
shall have been provided and shall be held for that purpose, whereupon 
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title to such bridges shall be conveyed to the State of New York and 
to the Canadian interests in the manner provided in section 6 hereof. 
"(4) Whenever the Commission shall determine that any bridge 
operated by it should be replaced by a new structure in order to 
facilitate the movement of international commerce at the approximate 
location of the bridge to be replaced, it may construct, maintain, and 
operate such new bridge and approaches thereto across the Niagara 
River, at a point north of the city of Niagara Falls, approximately at 
the location of the bridge to be replaced, and upon the completion of 
the new bridge the Commission may with the approval of the proper 
authorities in the Government of Canada close the old bridge to traffic 
or may continue to maintain and operate it. The net revenues of such 
new bridge shall be subject to the same pledges, if any, previously 
made of the net revenues of the bridge replaced by it. 
Such new 
bridge shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of an 
Act entitled 'An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over 
navigable w^aters', approved March 23, 1906, and subject to all appli-
cable provisions, conditions, and limitations contained in this joint 
resolution and to the approval of the proper authorities in the Govern-
ment of Canada." 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
Replacement 
bridges. 
34 Stat. 84; 33 
u s e 491-498. 
Public Law 167 
CHAPTER 290 
AN ACT 
To authorize the conveyance for public-school purposes of certain Federal land 
in Gettysburg National Military Park, and for other purposes. 
July31, 1953 
[S. 630] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenfibled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is hereby authorized to have competent and disin-
terested appraisals made as to the value of not more than twenty-
three acres of land in Gettysburg National Military Park, in the State 
of Pennsylvania, such land lying generally between East Confederate 
Avenue and Wainwright Avenue, and being situated adjacent to the 
present high-school property in that area. Upon the basis of such 
appraisals, the Secretary is authorized to convey such property for 
public-school purposes to the State of Pennsylvania, or the appro-
priate local agency thereof, the conveyance to be made in exchange for 
non-Federal land of approximately equal value, which land, upon 
acceptance by the United States, shall become a part of Gettysburg 
National Military Park. 
Approved July 31, 1953. 
Gettysburg Na-
tional 
M i l i t a r y 
Park, Pa. 
Conveyance. 
Public Law 168 
CHAPTER 291 
AN ACT 
To extend the benefits of certain provisions of the Reclamation Project Act of 
1939 to the Arch Hurley Conservancy District, Tucumcari reclamation project, 
New Mexico. 
July 31, 1953 
[S. 1433] 
Be it enacted^hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to extend the benefits of subsection (b), 
section 7, of the Keclamation Project Act of 1939, to the Arch Hurley 
Conservancy District, New Mexico, notwithstanding the existence of 
a repayment contract entered into by that district under the Federal 
Tucumc ari recla-
mation project, N. 
Mex. 
53 Stat. 1192. 
43 u s e 485f.