Chapter 419. to amend section one and section nine of an act entitled, “An act to authorize the Denison and Washita Valley Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six
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CHAP. 419.— An Act to amend section one and section nine of an act entitled, “An act to authorize the Denison and Washita Valley Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six.June 12, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Denison and Washita Valley Railroad Company may continue main line to Fort-Smith.
Ark., and constnict branch liner through Indian Territory and Oklahoma to Kansas. That the act entitled “An act to authorize the Denison and Washita Valley Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through tie Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows: That said railway company is hereby authorized in the manner, and with the limitations, restrictions, and requirements in said act contained, to continue the railway in said act, authorized from theVol. 24, p. 117, amended. terminus therein specified, namely:
A point of intersection with the projected line of the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway in the Indian Territory from Fort Smith to Paris, in the State of Texas’ in a northeasterly direction to Fort Smith, Arkansas, and also to construct,Continuation of main line towards Fort Smith, Ark.Branch line.Location. with the same limitations, restrictions, and requirements, a branch line of railway from a point on said main line not exceeding fifty miles from Red River, to be selected by said company, and running thence in a northwesterly direction through the Indian Territory and the country known as Oklahoma to a point on the southern line of the State of Kansas at or about where the same is crossed by the one hundredth meridian, by the most practicable route thereto.
Sec. 2. That said railway company shall build at least fifty milesVol. 34, p. 150, amended.Minimum construction in three years. of its railway on its main line, and fifty miles of its railway on its branch line within three years from the passage of this act, and shall 148FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 419, 422, 423. 1890. Completion.complete both the main and branch lines within two years thereafter, Forfeiture.or all the rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to that portion of the main line and branch line not then built.
Sec. 3. Existing law made ftppl icable to main and branch lines, etc. That said act of July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. is hereby continued in force, and made applicable to said railway and branch line in all its provisions, except as herein otherwise provided. Approved, June 12, 1890.