Volume 72
Public Law 85–757
To amend the Act creating the City of Clinton Bridge Commission and authorizing said commission and its successors to acquire by purchase or condemnation and to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River at or near Clinton, Iowa, and at or near Fulton, Illinois, in order to make certain changes in the authority of such commission, and for other purposes.
Approved August 25, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act creating the City of Clinton Bridge Commission and authorizing said commission and its successors to acquire by purchase or condemnation and to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River at or near Clinton, Iowa, and at or near Fulton, Illinois, in order to make certain changes in the authority of such commission, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence of section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act creating the City of Clinton Bridge Commission and authorizing said commission and its successors to acquire by purchase or condemnation and to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi River at or near Clinton, Iowa, and at or near Fulton, Illinois”, approved December 21, 1944 (58 Stat. 846), as revised, reenacted, and amended, is amended by striking out “in said State” and inserting in lieu thereof “by said State”.
Sec. 2.
Section 5 of such Act is amended (1) in the first sentence
Bond issues.
thereof by striking out “negotiable serial bonds” and inserting in lieu thereof “negotiable bonds”, and (2) in the proviso at the end of the fourth sentence, by striking out “twenty years” and inserting in lieu thereof “twenty-five years”.
Sec. 3.
Such Act is further amended by renumbering section 15 as
section 16 and by inserting immediately preceding such section a new section as follows:
“Sec. 15.
The bridge or bridges purchased or constructed under the
Federal instrumentalities.
authority of this Act shall be deemed to be Federal instrumentalities for interstate commerce, the postal service, and military and other purposes authorized by the Government of the United States, and said bridge or bridges and the income derived therefrom shall, on and after the effective date of this section, be exempt from all Federal, State, municipal, and local property and income taxation.”
Sec. 4.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved August 25, 1958.