Chapter 47.
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CHAP. 47.— An act granting right of way for railroad purposes and telegraph line through the lands of the United States included in the Fort Smith military reservation at Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas. Feb. 17, 1883. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the right of way, beginningGrant of right of way through United States lands for railroad and telegraph to Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company. at a point one hundred and twenty-eight feet south of the vertical axis of the monument at the initial point on the boundary line between the State of Arkansas and the Choctaw Nation ; thence south seven degrees east along said boundary line two thousand three hundred and thirty-nine feet ; thence south twenty-six degrees ten minutes east three thousand five hundred and eighty-seven feet to a point on the southern boundary of section seventeen, township eight north, range thirty-two west-, of the fifth principal meridian, and five hundred and eighty-eight feet west of a rock on said southern boundary of section seventeen, which marks the southeast corner of said United States reservation ; thence north eighty-two degrees and fifty-two minutes east along the southern boundary of said section seventeen two hundred and eleven feet; thence north twenty-six degrees and ten minutes west two thousand nine hundred and thirty-six feet to a point; thence, north nineteen degrees and ten minutes west one thousand three hundred and eighty-eight feet to a point; thence north twelve degrees and ten minutes west four hundred and fifteen feet to a point on the northern boundary of the ground reserved for a national cemetery, ninety six and three-tenths feet distant from the intersection of said northern boundary with the boundary line between the.
State of Arkansas and the Choctaw Nation ; thence north seven degrees and twenty-two minutes west one thousand one hundred and eighty feet to a point; thence north two degrees and fifty-four minutes east one hundred and ninety-eight feet to a point ; thence north six degrees and thirty-eight minutes east ninety-six feet six inches to a point; thence north eleven degrees and fifty-two minutes east one hundred and ninety-five feet to a point; thence north eighteen degrees and fifty-two minutes east one hundred and ninety feet to a point : thence north twenty-five degrees and fifty-six minutes east one hundred and ninety-eight feet to a point ; thence north twenty-nine degrees and twenty-nine minutes east twenty-eight feet to a point on the northeastern boundary of said United States reservation situate four hundred and forty-six and seven-tenths feet from the intersection of said northeastern boundary with the southwestern boundary of Garrison avenue in the city of Fort.
Smith ; thence north fifty-three degrees and three minutes west eighty and six-tenths feet to a point on said northeastern boundary of said United States reservation; thence south twenty-nine degrees and twenty-nine minutes west thirty-eight feet to a point; thence south twenty-five degrees and fifty-six minutes west two hundred and eight feet to a point; thence south eighteen degrees and fifty-two minutes west two hundred and five feet to a point ; thence south eleven degrees and fifty-two minutes west two hundred and five feet to a point; thence south six degrees and thirty-eight minutes west one hundred and one and a half feet to a point ; thence south two degrees and fifty-four minutes west two hundred and nine feet; thence south eighty-three degrees west eight and six tenths feet to the point of beginning, through 420 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 47–49. 1883. the lands of the United States included in the military reservation at Fort Smith, in the State of Arkansas, is hereby granted to the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the State of Missouri for the construction and operation of a railroad and telegraph line through the same: *Provided, **Proviso.*That from where the right of way of said railway company enters and extends through the walls inclosing the old fort, said railway company shall erect and build a stone wall on the extreme line of the inside boundary of their right of way of like height and dimensions of the wall now inclosing the fort, so that the fort, after the construction of the road, shall be completely inclosed.
Sec. 2. Right of way to revert to United States; when. That whenever said right of way shall cease to be used for the purposes aforesaid, the same shall revert to the United States. Sec. 3. That Congress may at any time add to, amend, alter, or repeal this act. Approved, February the seventeenth, 1883.