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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · February 23, 1889 · Chapter 206

Chapter 206.

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CHAP. 206.— An act granting to the Big Horn Southern Railroad Company a right of way across the Fort Custer Military Reservation, Montana.February 23, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Big Horn Southern Railroad Company granted right or way across Fort Custer reservation. That the Big Horn Southern Railroad Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the Territory of Montana, be, and is hereby, granted a right of way across the Fort Custer Military Reservation upon such line, in the vicinity of the Big Horn and Little Big Horn *Proviso*.Rivers, as may be approved by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, Width.That the said right of way hereby granted shall not exceed one hundred feet in width, except where sidetracks, spurs, turntables, and a station are located or to be located; and at such point the right of way shall not exceed two hundred feet on each side of the main track and not exceeding two thousand feet in length.
Approved, February 23, 1889.
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