Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-07-24
THE ALEXANDRIA CANAL RAILROAD
VIOLENT STORM.

The recess question was finally settled TINS
morning, the House by tight vote refusing to
reconsider the vote taken yesterday, by which
the Senate's resolution to take a recess from
Monday next until the third Monday in Sep
TENDER, was passed. .s: -- 1-l-
The vote on the recess was close, being Is to
1.-THE carpet-baggers with two exceptions
voting in the negative.
Senator Wilson introduced resolution to-
day, which was read three times and passed,
providing that all officers in the provisional
government, Of Virginia and Texas, who can
not take the oath prescribed by the act Of July
I'd, 1867, (the Iron Clad Oath, shall upon the
passage OF this resolution, be removed, and the
District Commanders be empowered to Fill such
vacancies by the appointment Of persons who
can take the said oath.
The Secretary Of War will very soon issue
an order recognizing the Military Districts IN
the South.
1t is expected that the bill for the establish
meut of provisional governments i'll Virginia,
Mississippi and Texas, will be reported to-day.
The House this morning agreed to the report
Of the Conference Committee on the Alaska
Appropriation bill, making an appropriation of
100000 to carry out the stipulaions Of the
purchase. The report comedies to the House
its right to participate in making treaties.
The Senate to-day amended and passed the
House bill in regard 70 the Alexandria canal
as follows:
Whereas by an act OF Congress, on the TWEEN
ty-sixth day of May, 1880, the Alexandria Ca.
nal Company was Incorporated, and authorized
and empowered to construct, operate, and main
tain canal from Georgetown, in the District
of Columbia, to Alexandria, IN the State OF
Virginia, with an aqueduct across the POto-
mae river at Georgetown; and whereas by an
act of the General Assembly of the State of
Virginia passed on the 10th day Of February,
1866 the board of public works was authoriz-
ed to unite with the corporate authorizes of
the city of Alezandria in making disposition OF
the Alexandria canal, in order to repair and
make said canal available; and whereas said
board Of public works did, in pursuance OF said
authority, so unite with said corporate author
tiles, and did by their joint vote, and vote of
a majority of the stockholders of said canal
company empower and direct the President and
directors Of the said canal company to lease the
said canal for the period Of ninc;y-nine years;
and whereas the President and directors, in
pursuance of said authority, did, on the six
teenth day OF May, eighteen hundred and six
ty-six, grant, lease, and convey the said canal .,
it's aducduct, locks, banks, lands gates, and
property Of all description to Henry II. Wells,
Phillip Quigey, and WILLIAM W. DUNCAN,
the grantees therein named; and whereas after
ward, and by an act passed by the General AS
scmbly of the State Of Virginia, on the seven
teenth day Of April, eighteen hundred and
sixty seven, the said lease was ratified and
affirmed, and the lessecs we're further author
lied and empowered to build, operate, and
maintain new aqueduct, and in conjunction
Herewith railroad and rode bridge across
said piers, and to build, operate, and maintain
a railroad from Georgetown to Alexandria; and
whereas the said lessees have entered into pos
session OF and repaired the said canal, and
have erected q new aqucduct across the said
Potomac river upon the said piers connecting
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal with the said
Alexandria canal: Therefore,
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives. ofMc United States Of -AD1crica
n Congress assembled that the said aQucduct
acrossthe Potomac river from Georgetown to
the Virginia shore, and SO connecting the said
canals, is hereby declared to be lawful struc-
ture in it's present position and elevation, any
ting in any law or laws Of the United States,
or Of any State, to the contrary notwlthstand-
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Ind be 1t further enacted, That the
said lessees their associates, their heirs,
and assigns, are hereby authorized and en-
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and to erect, build, operate, and maintain
across the the Potomac river from Georgetown
in the District of Columbia, to the Virginia
shore, upon and over the stone piers upon
which the auueduct now rests, in conjunction
Herewith, bridge of wood, iron, Or stone,
with one or more ways for the passage Of per-
sons, animals, and vehicles, and also with one
or more tracks or ways for the passage OF en-
gines and cars, with such other cOnvenlenccs
as are usual or necessary for a railroad.
Aud be 1t further enacted, That it shall be-
lawful for the said lessees, their associates and
SUCCESSORS to lay out construct, maintain, and
operate railroad across said bridge from
Georgetown, in the District Of Columbia, to
the VIRGINIA shore and there to connect with
said railroad.
A7ed be 1t further enacted, That as soon as
the chief engineer OF the army shall certify to
the Secretary of War that the said bridge is so
far completed as to be ready, fit, and convent,
ent for the passage Of persons, animals, and
vehicles, the said iessees their successors, and
their legal representatives, may demand, have,
and receive, in advance, the following tolls, TO
wit: For any foot passenger crossing on SAID
bridge, two cents for any horse, mule, or jack,
any OK, or other horned cattle, five cents for
ans vhice drawn by one animal, fifteen cents;
drawn by two animals twenty-five cents drawn
b5 four animals, thirty five cents, but no extra
charge shall be made for the driver of such
vehicle for any hog sheep, or other live crea-
ture, one cent; which certificate shall be pub
lished for three weeks in two daily papers in
the city of Washington, at the expense OF the
company: Provided, however. That it shall be
lawful for said lessees to commute those rates
to persons requiring pcarly passes which said
rates, or other lower rates to be by them pre-
scribed from time to time the said |essees may
demand In adVanoe. NAV she tor. have and