Chapter CLXV. *to amend an Act incorporating the National Junction Railway Company*
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CHAP. CLXV.— An Act *to amend an Act incorporating the National Junction Railway Company*. June 28, 1870.1869, ch. 6.*Ante*, p. 3. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Location of road of National Junction Railway Company changed. That the second section of “An act to incorporate the National Junction Railroad Company,” approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, be so amended that the said corporation be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to survey, locate, lay out, construct, collect tolls upon, maintain, and enjoy a railroad line, with appurtenances and machinery necessary for one or more tracks, within the District of Columbia, either upon the route specified in said section, or in the following manner, to wit:
Commencing at the northern terminus of the Aqueduct bridge, in the city of Georgetown ; thence in an easterly or northeasterly direction, by the most feasible route, to Rock Creek; thence along said creek, or parallel thereto, to its junction with the Potomac river; thence along said river bank, or parallel thereto, to the foot of Twenty-sixth Street of Washington city; thence on the south side of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, to its terminus; thence by the most direct and eligible route, southerly of and avoiding the public grounds, to the intersection of Virginia Avenue and South Capitol Street, conforming to the grade of such streets and avenues as the road may pass over; thence to the eastern branch of the Potomac river, at or near the navy yard, at a point to be indicated by the Secretary of the Navy.
Together with a branch road from the main line, commencing at the inter-section of Virginia and Delaware avenues; thence to a point on First Street east, on city grade; thence under said street, by an underground excavation or tunnel, to a junction of the Metropolitan and Washington branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroads. Also the privilege of locationUnion depot. and construction of an union depot on the main line of said road; the power to condemn ground for the location of the same, granted in the168FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 165, 166, 167, 168. 1870. Depot at Georgetown.seventh section of said act, being hereby restricted to two acres in area. Also a depot at some convenient point in Georgetown near the Aqueduct. Sec. 2. Bridges across the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, &c. how to be constructed.*And be it further enacted*, That whenever the said railroad shall cross the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, or the Washington canal, or branches or connections of either of them, such bridges shall be constructed by said railroad company so as not to impede or obstruct the navigation of said canals or either of their branches.
Sec. 3. Right of way to coincide with grades of railroads, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That the right of way hereby granted shall be so located as to coincide with the grade of any railroad to which the right of way has heretofore been granted. Approved, June 28, 1870.