GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, CALIFORNIA TOLLS ON GOVERNMENT TRAFFIC HEARINGS BEFORE THE BRIDGE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 877 A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE CHARGING OF TOLLS FOR Lea, Hon. Clarence F., Member of Congress from California. Reports on H. R. 7667, Seventy-seventh Congress (identical bill): III Resolution by California Legislature. GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE, CALIFORNIA TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1943 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a. m., in the committee room, New House Office Building, Hon. Virgil Chapman presiding. Mr. CHAPMAN. The committee will please be in order. The subcommittee has met this morning for hearing on H. R. 877, introduced by Mr. Lea, of California; H. R. 734, introduced by Mr. Welch, of California; H. R. 863, introduced by Mr. J. Leroy Johnson, of California; and H. R. 880, introduced by Mr. Rolph, of California. I believe these bills are identical. (The bills referred to are as follows:) [H. R. 877, 78th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the charging of tolls for the passage or transit of Government traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That tolls may be charged for the passage or transit over the Golden Gate Bridge of Government traffic, including military or naval personnel and their dependents and civilian employees of the Army and Navy traveling on Government business, but such tolls shall not be in excess of the tolls charged for the passage or transit of other traffic over such bridge. SEO. 2. This Act shall remain in force during the continuance of the present wars in which the United States is engaged and for six months after the termination thereof, or until such earlier time as the Congress by concurrent resolution may designate. [H. R. 734, 78th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the charging of tolls for the passage or transit of Government traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That tolls may be charged for the passage or transit over the Golden Gate Bridge of Government traffic, including military or naval personnel and their dependents and civilian employees of the Army and Navy traveling on Government business, but such tolls shall not be in excess of the tolls charged for the passage or transit of other traffic over such bridge. SEC. 2. This Act shall remain in force during the continuance of the present wars in which the United States is engaged and for six months after the termination thereof, or until such earlier time as the Congress by concurrent resolution may designate. 1 |