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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 25 STAT. · May 9, 1888 · Chapter 232

Chapter 232. to authorize the Kansas Valley Rail Road Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Riley military reservation, in Kansas, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 232.— An Act to authorize the Kansas Valley Rail Road Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Riley military reservation, in Kansas, and for other purposes.May 9, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Kansas Valley Railroad Company may build railway, telegraph, and telephone line through Fort Riley Reservation, Kansas. That the Kansas Valley Railroad Company, a corporation created under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kansas, be, and the same is hereby, empowered to survey, locate, construct, and maintain a railway, telegraph, and telephone line through that portion of the Fort Riley military reservation situated south and west of the Kansas River, upon such a line as shall be determined and approved by the Secretary of War.
Sec. 2. That said corporation is authorized to take and use for allWidth of right of way. purposes of a railway, and for no other purpose, a right of way one hundred feet in width through said Fort Riley military reservation 136FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 232– 234. 1888. for said line of the Kansas Valley Railroad Company, with the right to use such additional ground, where heavy cuts or fills may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of the roadbed, not exceeding one hundred feet in width on each side of said right of way, *Provisos*.To be used only for railroad, etc., purposes.or as much thereof as maybe included in said cut or fill: *Provided*, That no part of the lands herein authorized to be taken shall be leased or sold by the company, and they shall not be used except in such manner and for such purposes only as shall be necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said railroad, telegraph, and telephone lines; and when any portion thereof shall cease to be so used, such portion shall revert to the United States, from which the same shall have been taken: *Provided further*, That unless the Commencement.construction of said railroad across said reservation be entered upon in good faith within three years after the passage of this act, this grant shall cease and determine upon the declaration by the Secretary of War to that effect.
Approved, May 9, 1888.
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