Chapter 257. granting the right of way to the Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line Railroad Company across the Government farm connected with the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland
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CHAP. 257.— An Act granting the right of way to the Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line Railroad Company across the Government farm connected with the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.Feb. 25, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Right of way through Naval Academy grounds, Annapolis, Md., to Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line R. R. Co. That the right of way through the northwest corner of the lands belonging to the United States Government lying and being in Anne Arundel county, in the State of Maryland, known as the Government farm, be, and hereby is, granted to the Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line Railroad Company, for the construction of a railroad between the cities of Annapolis and Baltimore, to be located to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Navy; and the said right of way hereby granted shall be to the extent of sixty-six feet in width, with such additional width as may be required for slopes at cuttings and embankments, said line to be located northwest of the hospital buildings, and at least fifty feet from the outbuildings thereof.
Sec. 2. That the light of way and other privileges granted hereinTo lapse if not used in two years. under the provisions contained in this act shall become inoperative and null and void unless the said company shall, within the term of two years from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, have so far advanced the construction of said road as to satisfy the Navy Department that said company is lawfully and successfully established, and that said road will be completed as proposed within a reasonable time, and also unless the said railroad company shall cause to be erected and maintained suitable bridges where roads are crossed and fences erected and maintained on either side of said railroad.
Approved, February 25, 1887.