Chapter 520.
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CHAP. 520.— An act granting the right of way to the Metropolitan Southern Railroad Company through the property of the United States in Montgomery County, Maryland.March 3, 1891. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Metropolitan Southern Railroad Company granted right of way through grounds of receiving reservoir, Montgomery County, Md. That the Metropolitan Southern Railroad Company is hereby authorized to construct its road across the grounds of the United States forming a part of the grounds of the receiving reservoir,in Montgomery County,in the State of Maryland, north of the northeast boundary line of the District of Columbia, and for that purpose said company is hereby granted a width of sixty feet, at grade, and such additional width as it may requireWidth. for slopes of cuttings and embankments, across said grounds for its right of way through the grounds aforesaid: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*. location and plans of said road through said grounds shall be approvedApproval by Secretary of War. by the Secretary of War before the commencement of any work on said grounds, and the work of construction and the operating of said road shall be subject to such regulations as he may prescribe; and the damages for the use and occupation of the right ofDamages. way herein granted shall be fixed by a board of three Army officers appointed by the Secretary of War, and the payment of said damages so fixed shall be a condition precedent to the exercise of theTo lie paid before right exercised. rights by this act granted, which are to terminate at the pleasure of the Secretary of War, in case of persistent neglect by said Company,Termination. or by its successors, to comply with the regulations aforesaid.
Approved, March 3, 1891.