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Volume 44

Public Law 69–39

Granting the consent of Congress to the Norfolk and Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River at or near a point about two miles and a half east of Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia, and near the mouth of Lick Branch.

Approved February 27, 1926

Statutory text

An Act

Granting the consent of Congress to the Norfolk and Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River at or near a point about two miles and a half east of Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia, and near the mouth of Lick Branch.

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

That the consent

Tug Fork of Big Sandy River.

Norfolk and Western Railway Company may bridge, near Williamson, W. Va.

of Congress is hereby granted to the Norfolk and Western Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Virginia and authorized to do business in the State of West Virginia and operate railways in Kentucky, its successors and assigns, to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Tug Fork of Big Sandy River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near a point about two miles and a half east of Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia, and near the month of Lick Branch, in Mingo County, West Virginia, where the said Tug Fork forms the boundary line between the States of West Virginia and Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions of the Act

Construction.

Vol. 34, p. 84.

to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters, approved March 23, 1906.

Sec. 2.

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

Amendment.

expressly reserved.

Approved, February 27, 1926.

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