The Empire County argus., 1854-11-18
[Public, No. C5.1

[Public No. Co.
AN ACT authorizing tho extension of the Alexander and
Washington Railroad into the District of Columbia, and
comforting certain privileges the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company
Be enacted the Senate end House Of Representatives
pf the United Sates of AD1eycn in Cyu0ye5s asseLd
That the Alexandria and Washington Railroad Com
pany, incorporated by the Legislature of Virginia. on the
twenty seventh of February eighteen hundred and fifty
four to construct railroad from Alexandria in the Stale
of Virginia. to the city Of Washington, in the District of
Columbia, be- and are hereby, authorized extend their
road from any point on the Virginia side of the Potomac
river to which said road may be constructed above the
aqueduct of the Alexandria canal into the District of
Columbia, connecting with the Baltimore and Washington
railroad depot by the most convenient and practicable
route or routes passing through and along such
avenues except the PENNSYLVANIA avenue, of Washington
and Georgetown as the corporate authorities thereof may
respectively approve, subject to certain provisions heroin-
after expressed.
SEC. 2 And be At f0tber enacted, That the Aloxan-
dra and Washington railroad company hereby author
lied to construct bridge the Potomac river on
Company PrOrlded Said bridge shall only be built on or
over the piers Of the aqueduct with the consent of the
Alexandria Canal Company And proctdcd further, in
structnS said bridge and crossing the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal said bridge and railroad shall be construct
ed as not to ue obsruct the navigation of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Aad yroU,ded further, That
this act shall not prevent Congress from giving like pvi
lges to any other railroad company any other person.
SEC. g. Ald be further enacted, That the Alexandria
to est bish depos in the cities Of Washington and George
town al suen points as the corporate authorities thereof
may respectively approve, and to lay railroad track to
such point or points within said Cities and through and
along such streets and except the Penns vana
avenue OF said cities may be respectively approved of
by the corporate authorities of said Cities and make all
necessary turnouts the said railroad company being sub
Ject TO such terms, conditions restrictions and taxation,
and to such rules and regulations relative to the
ton repairs and working of their road within the cities
of ashngon and Georgetown as the corporate author-
ties of said cities may from to time respectively pre-
SCRIBE SO far as it may lay within their respective mts
9oaed no higher rate of taxation shall be imposed upon
sad railroad company than is prescribed by the respective
characters of said cities; and said railroad company shall
keep an office within the city of Washington George
bo huU nd I, ,,o1ya
contracts and to purchase and hold lands far may be
for carrying the operations of the company,
and the service OF process on the president any director
of said company the chief clerk attendance the
Office Of the company shall entitle any party comdango
OF the District OF Columbia to proceed against chartered
companies within its limits.
SEC T. A"d be ii further cnatcd That the Baltimore
ana Oho Railroad Company be- and it is hereby author
lied to construct and extend the Washington branch of
said road according to such may be
nent through the said District to point the PoO
mac river opposite to the city of Alexandria in
virginia. for the purpose of forming conncxion with the
said river and the lines of railroads running south subject
to'he provisions Of its present ct aracter and the said
company hereby authorized Locate construct and
operate the said extension hereby authorized throu such
parts OF the city OF Washington public reservations
the corporate authorities thereof the President of the
United States, respectively, may consent to, and also to
build bridge or bridges the Eastern branch of the
totomac river at some point above the yard POri
ded ocece That the shall not obsruct the navga
ton thereof And said company shall have power to To-
cate ana establish depots and erect the necessary buildings
thereon, and also 10 erect such wharcs piers into said
river as may be necessary provided the shall not OBJ
struct the navigation thereof Prooided tuiher That the
said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company be subject
tho same conditions and restrictions in extending their road
through any parts of the city of Washington pre-
scribed for the Alexandria and Washington Railroad Com
pany; Proridd, ho'cep That this section shall remain
suspended for two years. from the first day January
eighteen hundred and fyve, and if the end of that
time the Alexandria and Washington Railroad Company
shall not have completed railroad to Alexandria and
have the in good running order, in pursuance of the
requirements of the proceeding sections of this BILL then
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company shall have the
privilege of extending their road by either of the
authorized by this act 1nd ooided FURTHER, That if said
Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Company shall have
cuted much of the provisions of this relates
their by the first day of January eighteen hun
dred and ffty-nine, then this act shall be void.
Approved August 3d. 1854.