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Public Law 65–151

Granting the consent of Congress to the P. M. C. Coal Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Tug River, connecting Pike County, Kentucky, and Mingo County, West Virginia.

Approved July 15, 1918

Statutory text

An Act

Granting the consent of Congress to the P. M. C. Coal Company to construct and maintain a bridge across Tug River, connecting Pike County, Kentucky, and Mingo County, West Virginia.

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

That the consent of Congress

Tug River.

P. M. C. Coal Company may bridge, Pike County, Ky., to Mingo County, W. Va.

is hereby granted to the P. M. C. Coal Company, and its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across Tug River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, one end of the said bridge being in Pike County, Kentucky, near the western portal of Hatfield Tunnel of the Norfolk and Western Railway, and the other end of the said bridge being on the opposite side of Tug River, in Mingo County, in the State

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

of West Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.

Sec. 2.

That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved, July 15, 1918.

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