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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 26 STAT. · September 25, 1890 · Chapter 919

Chapter 919.

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CHAP. 919.— An act to authorize the Haines’ Brackett, Fort Clark and Rio Grande Railroad Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Clark military reservation in Texas, and for other purposes.September 25, 1890. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Haines’ Brackett, Fort Clark and Rio Grande Railway Company granted right of way through Fort Clark reservation. That the Haines’ Brackett, Fort Clark and Rio Grande Railroad Company, a corporation created under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Texas, be, and the same is hereby, empowered to survey, locate, construct, and maintain a railway, telegraph, and telephone line through that Location.portion of the Fort Clark military reservation, in the county of Kinney, in the State of Texas, 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 allPurposes. purposes of a railway, telegraph, and telephone line, and for no other Width.purpose a right of way one hundred feet in width through said Fort Clark military reservation for line of the Haines’ Brackett, Fort Clark and Rio Grande 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, or as much *Provisos*.Limitations.thereof as may be 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 Reversion.portion shall revert to the United States, from which the same shall have been taken: *Provided further*, That unless the construction Commencement, etc.of said railroad across said reservation be entered upon in good faith within two years after the passage of this act, this grant shall cease and determine upon the declaration of the Secretary of War to that effect.
Approved, September 25, 1890. Chapter 920: to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Savannah River by the Middle Georgia and Atlantic Railway Company. Chapter 920 26 Stat. 472 1890-09-25 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2026-02-21 51 1 public
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