Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-21

Company are hereby required to issue free
transfers 30 that for the payment OF one
shall have the privilege of continuous
ride over the lines of the others, or either
Of them
But whatever may have been the object,
and whatever may be the scope Of the law
above quoted, so far as 1t relates to the
Brfghtwood Railway Company and the
Metropolitan Railroad Company, 1t Is su-
proved February 28 1895 (2s Stat. 8s5),
being An act to amend the charter of the
Metropolitan Railroad Company Of the Dis
trfct Of Columbia, which provides as fol-
lows:
That the Brightwood Railway Com
pany. the Rock Creek Railway Company
and the Georgetown and Teneytown Rail-
road Company be, and they are hereby, re-
sspectively authorized and required to sell
four coupon tickets for % cents, good for
one continuous ride in the District of CO.
lumbia over the lines Of said companies. re-
spectiVely, and the lines of the Metropolitan
Railroad Company, and the said suburban
road shall redeem the tickets collected by
the Metropolitan Railroad Company at the
rate OF 21s cents for each coupon ticket pre-
sented by the said Metropolitan Railroad
Company
The Law In Clear.
This law is clear, and does not require
the application of rules of construction for
its correct understanding or Interpretation.
Since its enactment there has been no pro-
vision of law requiring the Metropolitan
Railroad Company to give free transfers
for transportation over the Brightwood
Railroad Company, or vice versa. 1t fol-
lows, therefore, that the act approved Feb
ruary 26, 1895, above quoted, controls, I'M
less 1t has been in any way affected by the
act OF Congress passed at it's last session.
authorizing the consolidation of local street
railroads under certain conditions.
by the act of Congress approved June
D, 1900 entitled An act relating to certain
or inc
street railways in the District of Column
bia 1t Is provided that the Brightwood
halfway Company of the District of Co
lumbia, the Metropolitan Railroad Com
pany of the District of Columbia and other
companies therein named, may enter into
contracts with each other or with any of
the others for the use of their respective
roads or routes upon certain conditions
Section provides that the Washington
and Great Falls Electric Railway Com
pany may acquire and hold stock in any Of
me railroad corporations mentioned in the
act ana may also contract for the purchase
OF the estate, property rights and fran
chises OF such other corporations.
The next to the last paragraph of sec
ton of said act provides as follows:
. That the Washington and Great Falls
Railway Company, on the purchase of the
property or franchises of any or all of said
railroad companies as in this bill author
lZed, snail be empowered to charge over
the said route or routes thus acquired the
rates of fare now authorized by law to be
charged thereon by the respective com
panies owning or operating the same and
more
And the concluding paragraph Of said
section provides as follows:
All obligations imposed by law upon any
corporation whose road or route is acquired
In accordance with the provisions of this
act, except as the same may be expressly
modified or repealed by this act shall con-
tinue tc be applicable to such acquired road
or route. and shall be confined thereto, and
such road or route shall be acquired subject
TO such obligations and with all the rights
and powers possessed by the selling corpor-
alton.