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Volume 53

Public Law 76–339

To authorize the Secretary of War to make contracts, agreements, or other arrangements for the supplying of water to the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District.

Approved July 25, 1939

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of War to make contracts, agreements, or other arrangements for the supplying of water to the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That power and

Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District.

Contracts, etc., authorized for supplying water.

authority are hereby granted to the Secretary of War to make and enter into contracts, agreements, or other arrangements, whereby the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District will receive water through the water-pipe lines on the Military Reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, for use at the toll plaza of the Golden Gate Bridge. Such contracts, agreements, or other arrangements, will be for periods of not more than five years each, and shall provide that the water received through the Government’s lines shall be metered and delivered at the water mains on the military reservation. Water so delivered shall be replaced in kind from

Terms and conditions.

the water mains of the city of San Francisco, California, or other acceptable source, at the expense of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District, by an equal quantity of water plus 5 per centum additional to cover wastage. Any expense incident to the extension

Expense.

and maintenance of the lines or additional equipment necessary to bring the water to the toll plaza must be met by the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District.

Approved, July 25, 1939.

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