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 58 STAT.] 78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 244, 245 -JUNE 13, 1944 [CHAPTER 244] AN ACT To amend the fourth and fifth provisos of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain", approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437, 438; 30 U. S . C ., sees. 201, 202). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth and fifth provisos of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain", approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437, 438; 30 U. S . C., secs. 201, 202), are hereby amended to read as follows: "And provided further, That no company or corporation operating a common-carrier railroad shall be given or hold a permit or lease under the provisions of this Act for any coal deposits except for its own use for railroad purposes; and such limitations of use shall be expressed in all permits and leases issued to such companies or cor- porations; and no such company or corporation shall receive or hold under permit or lease more than ten thousand two hundred and forty acres in the aggregate nor more than one permit or lease for each two hundred miles of its railroad lines served or to be served from such coal deposits exclusive of spurs or switches and exclusive of branch lines built to connect the leased coal with the railroad, and also exclusive of parts of the railroad operated mainly by power pro- duced otherwise than by steam: And provided further, That noth- ing in this section shall preclude such a railroad of less than two hundred miles in length from securing one permit or lease there- under but no railroad shall hold a permit or lease for lands in any State in which it does not operate main or branch lines." Approved June 13, 1944. [CHAPTER 245] AN ACT Granting the consent of Congress to the Minnesota Department of Highways and the county of Crow Wing in Minnesota to construct, maintain, and operate a free highway bridge across the Mississippi River at Mill Street in Brainerd, Minnesota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is hereby granted to the Minnesota Department of High- ways and the county of Crow Wing in Minnesota to construct, main- tain, and operate a free highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, at or near Mill Street in the city of Brainerd, Minnesota, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters", approved March 23, 1906, and subject to the conditions and limitations con- tained in this Act. SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved June 13, 1944. 275 June 13, 1944 [S. 1335] [Public Law 336] Mineral lands, leases and permits. Common-carrier railroads. Acreage limitation. Short-line railroads. June 13, 1944 [S. 1660] [Public Law 337] Mississippi River. Bridge at Bralnerd, Minn. 34 Stat. 84. 33U.S.C.§§491- 498.

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