Chapter 131. to amend the act incorporating the Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway Company
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CHAP. 131.— An Act to amend the act incorporating the Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway Company.March 3, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway Company. That the act to incorporate the Capitol, North O Street and South Washington Railway Company, approved March third, eighteen hundred anti seventy-five, be, and the Act of incorporation amended:1875, ch. 161,Stat., 18, 498.Route.same is hereby, amended, so as to authorize said company, at its discretion, to remove its track from Ohio avenue and Twelfth street southwest, and lay a single or double track, and run its cars thereon, from its present line at the intersection of Ohio avenue and Fourteenth street south, along Fourteenth street to C street southwest, eastwardly along C street southwest to Virginia avenue, to connect with its present line at the junction of said avenue and street; and also to lay a single or double track from its present line on P street and Eleventh street northwest, north along said Eleventh street to Boundary street: and to lay a single or double track commencing at the intersection of C street and Eleventh street southwest, running thence south on Eleventh street to Water street south, running thence easterly on Southern terminus.Water street south to M street south, which point shall be the southern terminus of the road; *Proviso.**Provided,* That the said company shall complete the tracks and run its cars along the streets named within six months from the approval of this act.
Sec. 2. Terms and conditions of joint use, how adjusted. That should any part of the track extension herein authorized coincide with portions of any other duly incorporated street railway, the relative condition of the chartered rights may be adjusted upon terms to be mutually agreed upon between the companies, or, in case of disagreement, by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, on petition filed therein by cither party, and on such notice to the other party as the court may order.
Sec. 3. Fare between BureAn of Engraving and Printing and nearest junction with any intersecting road. That the fare between the BureAn of Engraving and Printing and the nearest junction with any intersecting road shall be two cents. Sec. 4. Right of way of other street-Railway companies over tracks. That any other duly incorporated street-railway company in the District of Columbia shall have the right to run its cars over that portion of the route hereinbefore named south of Pennsylvania avenue, upon such fair and equitable terms as may be agreed upon between the said companies; and in the event that the said companies shall fail to agree upon satisfactory terms, either of said companies may apply by petition to the supreme court of the District of Columbia, which shall provide for proper notice to, and hearing of, all parties in interest; and shall have power to determine the terms and conditions upon which, and the regulations under which, the said company or companies using the tracks over the route before named may use and enjoy said tracks, and the amount and manner of compensation to be paid therefor.
Sec. 5. That Congress may at any time amend, alter, or repeal this act. Approved, March 3, 1881.