Chapter 917.
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CHAP. 917.— An act authorizing the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to lay tracks, and so forth, in the District of Columbia.August 27, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Richmond and Danville Railroad Company may lay tracks in. That it shall be lawful for the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, a corporation created by and existing under the laws of the State of Virginia, to run and operate steam locomotives and trains of ears for the transportation of passengers and freight within the District of Columbia as hereinafter provided; and the said Richmond and Danville Railroad Company may put down, construct, and use one or more tracks along Maryland avenue, in the city of Washington, fromLocation. its western terminus to and across Thirteenth and one-half street to block two hundred and sixty-nine, and thence obliquely through said block and over and across E and Thirteenth streets to block three hundred, and it shall be lawful for said Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to put down, construct, and use one or more tracks from said block two hundred and sixty-nine over and across 452FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 917, 986. 1888. said Thirteenth street to block two hundred and ninety-nine, and to Station, etc.establish and erect depot or station buildings upon either or any of Damages.the before-mentioned blocks: *Provided*, That any injury or damage caused to property of individuals by the construction of said tracks or depot buildings shall be paid by the said Richmond and Danville Taxation.Railroad Company: *And provided further*, That all property owned and held by said railroad company within the District of Columbia shall be subject to taxation.
Sec. 2. Use, etc., of real estate.That it shall be lawful for said Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to hold, use, occupy, and convey any real estate heretofore purchased or which may hereafter be purchased by it for corporate uses and purposes. Sec. 3. Amendment.That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act or any part thereof at any time. Approved, August 27, 1888. Chapter 936: to accept and ratify an agreement made with the Shoshone and Bannack Indians, for the surrender and relinquishment to the United States of a portion of the Fort Hall Reservation, in the Territory of Idaho, for the purposes of a town-site, and for the grant of a right of way through said reservation to the Utah and Northern Railway Company, and for other purposes.
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