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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · March 24, 1890 · Chapter 48

Chapter 48. to amend an act to incorporate the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Company of the District of Columbia, which became a law August tenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-eight

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CHAP. 48.— An Act to amend an act to incorporate the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Company of the District of Columbia, which became a law August tenth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.March 24, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Georgetown and Tennallytown Railway Company of the District of Columbia.Location of tracks.Vol. 25, p. amended. That the act entitled “An act to incorporate the Georgetown and Tennally town Railway Company of the District of Columbia” be, and the same hereby is, amended, by substituting after the words “and along High street, in Georgetown, to the Tennallytown road” the words “and thence along and in said road” for the words “but wholly outside of the limits of said road and along the side of said road”: *Provided*, That*Provisos.*Location of inner rails. the inner line of rails shall be at the minimum distance of eight feet from the center of the improved roadway: *And provided further*, That said railway shall be located on such side of the road way asCommissioners to locate railway. may be indicated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
Approved, March 24, 1890.
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