Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-08-30
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Washington Railroad into the District of Columbia and
comforting certa privileges the Baltimore
Be it enacted dy tile Senate and House Of Representatives
Of the Cnited States Of Anerica IN Congress assu6led That
porated by the legislature of Virginia the twenty-se-
venh of February eighteen hundred and to CON
struc railroad from Alexandria, in the State of Virginia.
to the city of Washington in the District Columbia be-
and hereby authorized to extend their road any
point the Virginia side of the Potomac which
said road be constructed at above the aqueduct
Meeting with the baltimore and washington railroad depo
by the most convenient and practicable route routes
the PENNSYLVANIA avenue of WASHINGTON and
the corporate authorities thereof may respectively
SEC IND be It 1a1tfer enacted, That the Afexandria
and Washington railroad company hereby authorized
of the aqueduct Alexandria Canal Company:
Prorided, Said bridge shall only be built the
Canal Company: 1Amd prordea FURTHER, in constructing
said bridge and crossing the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
said bridge and railroad shall be
nure obstruct the navigation of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal: And provided sr That this act shall
not prevent Congress from giving like privileges any
other her railroad s company IN OF any Other person
to establish depos the cities Washington and George
town at such points as the thereof
tracks to point points within said cities and through
mia avenue of said cities be respectively approved
of by the corporate authorities of said cities and make
subject to such terms conditions restrictions
tion and to such rules and regulations relative
cities of Washington and Georgetown the corporate
thor1tes OF said cities may from time to time respectively
PoOdd higher of taxation shall be imposed upon
said railroad than is prescribed by the respective
charters Of said cities; and said railroad company shall
keep office within the city of Washington Georgetown
purchase hold lands SO far as NAV be
for carrying on the operations of the company and the
vice Ut process the president director of said
the chief clerk in attendance the office the
against said company authorized the laws
District of Columbia to proceed against chartered compan
les within its limits.
Sec. A. Ind be it zrther enacted That the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company be- and is hereby authorized
to construct and extend the Washington branch of said
road according to such route be most convenient
through the said District to Point the
river opposite to the city of Alexandria Virginia.
and the lines of railroads running south subject the
visions of its charter and the said company
extension hereby authorized through such the city
of Washington public reservations the corporate
pecvely, may consent to, and also to build bridge
bridges the Eastern branch of the Potomac river
the same shall not obsruct the navigation thereof And
said shall have locate and establish
pots and erect the buildings thereon and also
erect such wharves piers into said river may be
provided the shall obstruct
ton thereof Prouided tuter That the said Baltimore
and Ohio railroad Company be subject to the condi
tons and restrictions extending their roads through
parts of the city of Washington, prescribed for the
Alexandria and W Washington Railroad Company Procded,
hocecer That this section shall suspended two
from the first day ofJanuary eighteen hundred
y-ve and if the of time the Alexandra and
Washington Railroad Company shall have completed a
railroad to Alexandria, and have the in good running
order in of the requirements of the preceding
sections of this BILL then the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company shall have the privilege of extending road
by either of the authorized by this Ind proci
shall not have executed much of the provisions
this act relates to .her company by the first
uary eighteen hundred and then this act shall be
void.
Approved, August Sd, 1854.