New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-28
TPUBLIC-No. 60. \
AN ACT to incorporate the Columbia Railway Con
panY of the District OF Columbia.

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pany of the District of Columbia.
Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America i'll Con-
gress assembled, That William Gunton. John c.
McKelden, Samuel Fowler, William B. Todd, vii.
liam II. Clagett, John F Callan. $. P Brown,
George H Plant, W G. BestG TIE, E NJ Ga;laudet R.
tin NJ. Rohrer Richard Sutton, David D. Cone,
Robert Williams william P Copeland, William H
j. G. Wall, John H. McCutchen, Poulus Thyson,
Bernard Hayes, Jacob b. Ktch and their associates
and assigns, be and they are hereby created body
corporate under the name of the Columbia Railway
Company, with authority to construct and lay down
a single double track railway. with the necessary
switches and turnOuts, in the city and county Of
Washington in the District of Columbia through
and along the following avenues, streets and high
ways: commencing at point on tne eastern side
OF West Fifteenth street, on New York avenue,
thence eastwardly along said avenue 10 its inter
section with north street; thence along forth X
nue.; thence along Massachusetts avenue to its in
tcrsection with north II street. and thence along
north street to its eastern termination with the
Columbia turnpike gate; with the right 10 run pub
lie carriages thereon drawn by horsepower. re-
ceviug therefor rate of fare not exceeding six
cents II passenger Ar any distance said road
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That should a
majority of the stockholders elect, at any time
within two years after the completion Of said road
(provided for in section one abovc) the said COM
|ilnv shall have the right to extend said road
either with n single or double track with the ne
cessary switches and turnoHts along the line OF the
Columbia Turnpike Road Company, with the con-
sent of said Turnpike Road COMPANY or on anv
other road roads leading nortlwarti!y or east
wardly from such intersection at the Columbia
turnpike gate, now opened, which may hereafter
be opened, by the proper authorities and thence
along said road or roads by the most practicable
route routes, to the terniui near. at or in the
District OF Columbia, receiving therefor rate OF
fare not exceeding seven cents a passc niger for
distance on said road or roads. The carriages on
the extension of said road roads to be prope lied
either by horsepower or dummy engines ut the
option of the said railway company
SEC 3. And lie il further enacted, That the said
road roads shall be deemed real estate. and to-
gether with other real and personal property of
said body corporate shall be liable to taxation as
other real estate and personal property and to Ii.
cense for their vehicles cars in the cty and
county aforesaid except as hereinafter provided
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted. That the said
railway shall he laid near the centre OF the ave
nues and streets in the city Of Washington as prac
ticable without interfering with or passing over
the water or gas pipes) in the most approved man
adapted to street railways with the rails of the
most approved pattern, to be determined by the
Secretary of the Interior laid upon an even surface
the space between the two tracks (where
two are laid) shall not be less thar
four feet nor more than six feet and the
carriages shall not be less than six feet in width
the guage to correspond with that of the Metropo
itan railroad. That the railways in the county
(should it be determined to construct such roads
shah be laid in such manner as will least interfer,
which the tracks shall be laid
SEC. ;. And pc it further enacted, That the sale
corporation hereby created shall he bound to keey
SAID tracks and for space of two feet beyond thu
outer thereof, and also the space between thu
tracks 90 far as the laid within the limit
OF the city or Washington at all times well pave,
ana IN good order, without expense to the tnitet