Chapter 139. Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to abrogate a contract lease of water power on the Muskingum River
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CHAP. 139.— An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to abrogate a contract lease of water power on the Muskingum River. February 27, 1923.[[S. 3611](/us/pl/67/3611).][[Public, No. 449](/us/pl/67/449).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Muskingum River.Lease of Phoenix Mill Company of water power from, at Marietta, Ohio, abrogated. That upon the payment of $155 additional by the lessee to the United States Government, to be paid within three months after this Act is approved, and with the understanding that no part of the moneys paid by the lessee to the United States Government shall ever be refunded, and in satisfaction of all claims of both parties the Secretary of War be authorized and directed to abrogate a contract lease entered into on the 24th day of June, 1904, between Robert Shaw Oliver, Assistant Secretary of War, for the United States of America, and the Phoenix Mill Company, by D.
P. Torpy, its president, of Marietta, Ohio, for the water power at Dam Numbered One at Marietta, Ohio, on the Muskingum River, in the State of Ohio. Approved, February 27, 1923.