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roads and ways thereto, toll houses, lodges and other buildings and struc-
tures necessary for the proper operation of said bridge and the rights so
acquired by agreement shall be conveyed by deed duly acknowledged and
recorded. In case of failure to agree or of the disability of the owners to
contract or of their absence from the State the corporation may obtain the
lands, water rights and other properties necessary as above described by
condemnation under the provisions of Sections 203 and 204 or Sections
331 to 336 inclusive of Article 23 or Article 33A of the Code of Public
General Laws of this State. But said Company shall not have the right
to condemn land or other property not reasonably necessary for the loca-
tion, construction and operation of 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 operation of the lands lying under the waters of the Potomac River
necessary for the construction and operation of said bridge and the ap-
proaches and appurtenances thereto.

1933, ch. 551, sec. 4.

64D. Said Company shall grant to the State Roads Commission or to
its duly 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.

1933, ch. 551, sec. 5.

64E. 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 corpo-
ration desiring the use of said bridge, approaches, appurtenances and
works or any part thereof, for placing thereon water, gas or oil pipe line,
telephone, telegraph, electric light or power line or for any other purpose,
except 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 duly constituted public authority.

1933, ch. 551, sec. 6.

64F. 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 and
operate any other bridge over the waters of the Potomac River within a
distance of fifteen miles of the bridge the construction of which is herein
provided for, except such other bridge be erected after the acquisition by
the State of Maryland of the bridge to be erected pursuant hereto and with
the consent of the General Assembly.
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