Chapter 28. To authorize the Norfolk and Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at or near a point about a mile and a half west of Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia, and near the mouth of Turkey Creek, Pike County, Kentucky
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CHAP. 28.— An Act To authorize the Norfolk and Western Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at or near a point about a mile and a half west of Williamson, Mingo County, West Virginia, and near the mouth of Turkey Creek, Pike County, Kentucky. February 16, 1924.[[S. 1374](/us/bill/68/s/1374).][[Public, No. 23](/us/pl/68/23).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the NorfolkTug Fork of Big Sandy River.Norfolk and Western Railway Company may bridge, between Counties of Mingo, W.
Va., and Pike, Ky. 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 to possess and operate a railway in Kentucky, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate, a bridge and approaches thereto across the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation at or near a point about a mile and a half west of Williamson.
Mingo County, West Virginia, and near the mouth of Turkey Creek, Pike County, Kentucky, where the said Tug Fork forms the boundary line between the States of West VirginiaConstruction.Vol. 34, p. 84. and Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions of the Act 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 herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 16, 1924.