Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-30
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AN All to incorporate the Washington ard
Georgetown Railroad Company
BE 1t enacted by the senate and house Of
representatives Of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled that Elisha King
man, Franklin Tenney,J. j. Coombs, Savles J.
Bowen, Charles Ii. Upton, Henry Addison,
Hallett kilbourn, and their associates and as
signs, be and they are hereby created body
corporate, under the name of the ''Wasliing-
ton and Georgetown Railroad" with authori-
ty to construct and lay down double track
railway, with the necessary switches and turn
out, in the cities of Georgetown and Wash
ington, in the District of Columbia. through
and along the following avenues and streets !;
commencing on Bridge street, at the intersec-
ton with High street, or at such point on said
Bridge street east thereof, in the city of
Georgetown, as may be designated hereafter
by the corporate authorities thereof along said
Bridge street to its intersection with the street
running to the tubular bridge over Rock
creek to Pennsylvania avenue, in the city of
Washington along said avenue to Fifteenth
street west; along said street south to said
avenue; along said avenue to the foot of Can
ltol grounds: thence around the southern
boundary Of the Capitol grounds; and along
Their southern boundary easterly to PennSyl-
wanna avenue; along said PENNSYLVANIA aven-
ue 10 Eighth street east, or Garrison street:
anu along SAID street south to the navy yard
gate,wlth lateral road running along the east
front OF the Capitol from the southern to the
northern gate, and thence by "A" street TO
the depot Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad;
and thence from said depot through First
street west to Pennsylvania avenue, so as to
lhtersect with said main road; also, double
or single track branch railway commencing
at Boundary street north and running south
down Seventh street west to Pennsylvania av
ennc and to the Potomac; also, a railway
commencing at Boundary street and running
down Fourteenth street west and New York
avenue to Pennsylvania avenue to point of
intersection with said first mentioned railway
with the right to run public carriages thereon
drawn by horse power, receiving therefor rate
of fare not exceeding five cents passenger
for any distance between the termini of either
of said branch railways, or between either ter
minus of said main railway and the terminus
of either If said branch railways Provided
that the use and maintenance of said road shall
be subject to the municipal regulations of tn,
cities Of Washington and Georgetown, re
spectively, within their several corporate lin
its, and that whenever the Capitol grounds
shall be enlarged, then the said routes shall
be made to conform thereto.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that saif
roads shall be deemed real estate, and they
together with other real property and the per.
sonal property Of said body corporate, shall b,
liable TO taxation as other real estate and per.
sonal property in the cities aforesaid, exccp
as hereinafter provided
Sect. 3. And be il further enacted, that sait
railway shall be laid in the centre of the aycn.
ues and streets, near as may be. withou
interfering with or passing over the water OF
gas pipes, in the most approved manner ad
aptcd for street railways, with rails ofthe mos
approved patterns, to be determined by tn,
secretary of the interior, laid upon an ever
surface with the pavement Of the streets; ant
the space between the two tracks shall not b,
less than four feet nor more than six, and thu
carriages shall not be less than six feet il