Chapter XXXII. *to extend the Time for the Completion of the lateral Branch of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, authorized by the Act approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to change the Location in the City of Washington along the Bank of the Canal*
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CHAP. XXXII.— An Act *to extend the Time for the Completion of the lateral Branch of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, authorized by the Act approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to change the Location in the City of Washington along the Bank of the Canal*. March 25, 1870.1867, ch. 29.Vol. xiv. p. 387. Preamble.Whereas a charter was granted by an act of Congress, approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, giving to the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company the privilege of constructing a lateral branch of their railroad into the District of Columbia and the city of Washington ;
See 1870, ch. 142,*Post*, p. 161, for supplementary act.and whereas under the said act the time for the completion of said lateral branch was within four years from the passage of the act, and as the work on the line of the road within the city of Washington is very heavy and will consume a long time in its construction ; and whereas the work has already been delayed in submitting the plans and location to Congress for their approval: Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Seventh section of act repealed.
That the seventh section of the act to authorize the extension, construction, and use of a lateral branch of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad into and within the District of Time for completion of lateral branch extended.Columbia be, and the same is hereby, repealed ; and the time for the completion of the said lateral branch of the Baltimore and Potomac railroad be, and the same is hereby, extended to the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the said company, if it shall so Line of road in the city of Washington.1869, ch. 2.*Ante*, p. 1.elect, is hereby authorized to adopt a line in the city of Washington from some point west of East Fourth Street, in the line designated in the act of Congress approved March eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as passing along South K Street, thence crossing to and passing along the south bank of the canal, to South Capitol Street, and thence northwestwardly to Virginia Avenue, there intersecting and passing along the line described in said act approved March eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as passing along Virginia Avenue northwestwardly to the intersection of South C and West Ninth Street.
Approved, March 25, 1870.