Chapter 111.
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CHAP. 111.— An act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to permit the temporary occupation and crossing of certain streets in the city of Washington and District of Columbia by the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad Company, to meet the demands of increased travel incident to the inaugural ceremonies on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.February 1, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Washington.
D. C. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company permitted to lay temporary tracks. That the commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to issue to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company a permit to lay and use, for a period commencing February twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and extending to and including 655 March tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, temporary tracks on the following streets and avenues: First. Commencing at the east side of North Capitol street, andLocations. crossing said North Capitol street to D street, and down the bed of D street, occupying it with two tracks to its intersection with New Jersey avenue.
Second. Commencing at the south side of Massachusetts avenue, and extending in a southerly direction across E street at or about the building line into square six hundred and eighty-one, the property of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, and running parallel with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company’s freight warehouse to North Capitol street. Third. To cross the unnamed street running north and south through square six hundred and seventy-eight, between F and G streets with five tracks, being the extension of the five tracks now in use in the southeast portion of square six hundred and seventy-eight, with the privilege of closing this street to travel from the first to the sixth of March, inclusive.
Approved, February 1, 1889.