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demn land or other property not reasonably necessary for the location,
construction and operation of the said bridge and appropriate and needed
toll houses and appurtenant structures, and the necessary approaches and
ways to said bridge. The State of Maryland hereby consents to the use and
occupation of the lands lying under the waters of the Chesapeake Bay,
necessary for the construction and operation of said bridge and the ap-
proaches and appurtenances thereto.

1927, ch. 207, sec. 4.

106. Said Company shall grant to the State Roads Commission or
to its authorized representatives, at all reasonable times, free access to the
work to be carried on in the construction of said bridge, and to all maps,
profiles, contracts, reports of engineers, accounts, books, records, and all
other papers and documents relating thereto.

1927, ch. 207, sec. 5.

107. Said Company is hereby authorized to fix and to revise from time
to time tolls for transit over said bridge and to charge and collect the same,
and to fix by contract with any person, partnership, association, or corpora-
tion desiring the use of said bridge, approaches, appurtenances and works,
or any part thereof, for placing thereon water, gas or oil pipe line, tele-
phone, telegraph, electric light or power line or for any other purpose, ex-
cept for tracks for railroad or railway use, the terms, conditions and rates
of charges for such use, provided, however, that any such contract for the use
of said bridge for such purpose or purposes shall in every case provide for
adequate compensation to said company,, its successors and assigns. The
rates of tolls and charges so fixed shall be the legal rates, unless and until
changed by order of the Public Service Commission, as may be authorized
by Law.

1927, ch. 207, sec. 6.

108. No person, partnership, association or corporation, private or
public, shall be authorized to, and it shall be unlawful for any person,
partnership, association or corporation, private or public, to construct or
operate any bridge over the waters of the Chesapeake Bay at a distance
less than ten miles from the bridge to be erected in pursuance of this sub-
title, except such other bridge be erected after the acquisition by the State
of the bridge to be erected, pursuant hereto, and with the consent of the
General Assembly.

1927, ch. 207, sec. 7.

109. A franchise tax is hereby levied annually upon the gross receipts
of said Company, its successors and assigns, derived from the tolls and all
other revenues from the said bridge, such tax being as follows, to wit:
two and one-half per cent, of so much of such gross receipts as shall be
not in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500, 000) in any one
year, and in addition thereto three and one-half per cent, of so much of
such gross receipts as shall be in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($500, 000) and not in excess of One Million Dollars ($1, 000, 000) for