Chapter 254. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Capital Railway Company.” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five
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CHAP. 254.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate the Capital Railway Company.” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.May 28, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Act entitled “An Act District of Columbia. Capital Railway Company. Vol. 28, p. 721. to incorporate the Capital Railway Company,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out in the first section all after the words “have a common seal,” to the end of the section, and inserting the following:
“Said corporation Change of route. is hereby authorized to construct and lay down and complete a single or double track street railway in the District of Columbia, and run cars thereon for carrying passengers by and along the following route: Beginning at a point on the District line near the Potomac River southeast of Shepherd’s Ferry, thence by such route as shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to the south side of the Eastern Branch or Anacostia River at the Navy Yard bridge; thence May cross Navy-Yard bridge. across said bridge to Eleventh street east; thence north on Eleventh street east to M street south; thence west on M street to a point to be located by the District Commissioner near Eighth street east, connecting with the lines of the Capital Traction Company, also continuing from said Eleventh and M streets north on Eleventh street to the south building line of East Capitol street, and returning over the same route to the point of beginning.
Also, beginning at the eastern end of the Navy Yard bridge, easterly along Monroe and Harrison streets and Good Hope road. and from Good Hope road to the District line, over such route as 188FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 254, 255. 1896. the District Commissioners shall approve, and returning over the same route to the point of beginning: *Provided,* That within the city of Washington *Provisos.* Construction in Washington. Commencement and completion. a double-track railway shall be constructed: *Provided further,* That the line of said railway company shall be commenced within three months and completed within one year from the date of the passage of this Act, with the exception mentioned in section four of this Act.
” Sec. 2. That the motive power to be used on the lines in this Act specified Motive power. shall be the underground electric system within the city of Washington and the overhead trolley system outside the city of Washington. For crossing the Navy-Yard bridge the said company may, in the discretion Crossing the bridge. of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, use either horse power or the underground electric system to propel its ears; and the said company shall have the privilege of carrying an electric current across the said Navy-Yard bridge in such manner as the said Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall prescribe.
Sec. 3. That the Capital Railway Company, the Metropolitan Railroad Transfers. Company, and the Capital Traction Company are hereby required to issue free transfers at the point of intersection of their respective lines, so that for the payment of one fare a passenger on either road shall have the privilege of riding over the lines of both. Sec. 4. That the portions of the company’s route from Congress or Construction of portions of road. Pencote Heights to Shepherd’s Landing and the Harrison street branch east to the District line shall be completed within two years from the passage of this Act: *Provided,* That failure to complete the said portions *Proviso.* Repeal as to portions not completed. of the routes as provided for in this section, and, also, failure to complete the extension on Eleventh street east, shall operate to repeal the authority to build said portions, and shall not repeal the charter of said company.
Sec. 5. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal Amendment, etc. this Act. Approved, May 28, 1896.