New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-25
~1PCBLIC-NO. 1911
AN c t. extend the provisions OF the pre-emp.
ton laws to the Territory of Colorado. and for
other purposes. .,

the Territory OF Colorado, and for other purposes"
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in
the act Of Congress, approved March twenty-seven,
eighteen hundred and hfty-fOur, entitled AN act
for the relief Of settlers on lands reserved for rail
road purposes" shall be construed to relieve such
settlers from the obligation tohle the proper notices
of their claims, as in other eases, and all claimant
of presumption rights shall hereafter, when no
shorter period of time is now prescribed by law,
make the proper proof and payment for the lands
claimed, within eighteen months after the date pre-
scribed for filing their declaratOry notices shall
have expired: Provided, That where said date shall
have elapsed before the passage of this act, said
~pre-emptOrs shall have one year after the passage
hereof in which to make such proof and payment.
Approved, July IA, 1870.
IPuBLlc-No. 68.J
AN c to incorporate the Columbia Railway Com
pany OF the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That William GuntOn. John C..
McKelden, Samuel Fowler, William b. Todd, Will
George H. Plant, w. c. Bestor, +. NJ. Gallaudet. h.
{. Fox, Matthew G. Emery, william ~stickney, Mar
Robert Williams, William P. Copeland, William II.
Nlley, G.. II. B. White, James r. Piitchard,
Bernard Hayes, Jacob b. Kitch, and their associates
and assigns, he and they are hereby created a body
corporate under the name of the Columbia a ilway
Company, with authority to construct and lay down
"A single or double track railway, with the necessary
switches and turnouts, in the city aud county OF
| Washington, in the District of Columbia, through
and along the following avenues, streets and high
ways: commencing at "a point on the eastern side
of West Fifteenth street. on New York avenue,
thence eastwardly along said avenue to its inter-
section with north X street; thence along north X
street to its intersection with Massachusetts ave-
nue.; thence along Massachusetts avenue TO it's in
tersectiOn with north ii street; and thence along
north II street to its eastern termination with the
Columbia turnpike gate; Win me rlsht to rhn pub
lie carriages thereon drawn by horsepower, re-
ceiving therefor a rate of fare Lot exceeding six
cents a passenger for any distance on said road.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That should a
majority of the stockholders so elect, at any time
within two years after the completion OF said road
provided for i'll section one above), the said com
pany shall hive the right to extend said road,
either with a single or double track, with the ne
cessary switches and turnouts, along the line of the
Columbia Turnpike Road Company, with the con
sent OF said Turnpike Road Company. or on any
other road or roads leading northwardly or east
Wardiy from such intersection at the Columbia
turnpike gate, now opened, or which may hereafter
be opened. by the proper authorities; and thence
along SAID road or roads, by the most practicable
route or routes, to the ter1uini near, at, or i'll the
District of Columbia, receiving therefor a rate of
fare hot exceeding seven cents IL passcn ger for any
distance on said road or roads. The carriages on
the extension OF said road or roads to he propelled
either by horsepower or dummy engines. at the
option OF the said railway company.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said
road or roads shall be deemed real estate, and. to-
gether with other real aud personal property of
other real estate and personal property, and to Ii.
cense for their vehicles or ears in the city and
county aforesaid, except as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said
railway shall be laid as near the centre of the ave
nues and streets in the city of Washington as prac.
ticable without interfering with or passing over
ner adapted to street railways, with the rails of the
most approved pattern, to be determined by the
Secretary Of the Interior, laid upon all even surface
with the pavement OF the streets or avenues; and
the space between the two tracks (wlere
two are laid) shall not be less than
four rect nor more than six feet, and the
carriages shall not be less than six feet in width:
the g"age to correspond with that of the Metropol.
ltan railroad. That the railways in the county
| (SnOOlO 1t be 0etprlniNpd To eOnafruct cuof raaJ.,
shall be laid in such manner as win least interfe,c
with the ordinary travel of the road or roads on
which the tracks shall be laid.
SBC. 5. And be it further enacted. That the said
corporation hereby created shall be bound to keen
SAID tracks, and for a space OF two feet beyond the
outer rali thereof, and also the space between the
tracks, so far as the same are laid within the iimits
OF the city of Washington, at all times well paved
AID III good order, without expense 70 the tuiteJ