Chapter XLVI. *to grant the Right of Way to the Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad Company.*May 20, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Whitehall and Plattsburgh R
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CHAP. XLVI.— An Act *to grant the Right of Way to the Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad Company.*May 20, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Whitehall and Plattsburgh R. R. Co. to have certain right of way. That the Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad Company be, and is hereby, authorized to locate, construct, and operate its railroad across the land belonging to the United States at Plattsburgh, in the State of New York, upon a line commencing in the highway leading from Plattsburgh to Peru, at a point one hundred feet north from the north line of the enclosure surrounding the government buildings, running thence in a northeasterly direction about sixteen hundred feet to the bank of Lake Champlain, thence northwardly along the bank of said lake to the north line of the land belonging to the United States, such line of said road being designated on a map of survey of the same, made by James P.
Campbell, and now on file in the office of the Proviso.Secretary of War: *Provided,* that the right of way herein granted shall61be subject to such restrictions as the Secretary of War may think necessaryLimit of grant. to protect the interests of the United States: *And provided further, *That no more than four rods in width of the government land shall be occupied under the provisions of this act. Approved, May 20, 1868.