Chapter 270. to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to permit file temporary occupation of streets by a railway for the purpose of transporting material to fill about the base of the Washington Monument
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CHAP. 270.— An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to permit file temporary occupation of streets by a railway for the purpose of transporting material to fill about the base of the Washington Monument.Feb. 28, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Commissioners D. C. to permit laying of track to lie used in filling base of Washington Monument. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to issue permit for the laying of a temporary railway track in such streets or avenues as in their judgment shall best subserve the purpose and interfere least with the public use of the same, to such persons as shall be awarded the contract to fill about the base of the Washington Monument, in pursuance of the advertisment of the officer in charge of the construction and under the Laws 1st session 49th Congress, p. 245.provisions of the act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, making appropriation for that work.
Approved, February 28, 1887.