Chapter 247. Granting to the Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company the right to cross with its track the Dry Valley road to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park
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CHAP. 247.— An Act Granting to the Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company the right to cross with its track the Dry Valley road to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. May 7, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company may cross Dry Valley road. That the Secretary of War isChattanooga Rapid Transit Company may cross Dry Valley road. hereby authorized, at his discretion, and upon the favorable recommen- 400 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Chs. 247, 248. 1898. dation of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Rational Park Commission, to grant a right of way to the Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company to lay a single track across the Dry Valley road at such point or place thereon as said commission may determine upon; and also, upon like recommendation of said commission, may grant such other concessions as may be necessary to permit the said Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company to extend its Hues to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga *Proviso.*Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission to determine location, etc.National Park: *Provided,* That such grantor grants shall only become or be operative on the condition that the track and tracks and roadbed of said company, and the right of way for any and all extensions of its road to said park from the point of crossing said Dry Valley road shall first be definitely fixed and located upon a line or lines which shall be satisfactory to and approved by said commission; and no part of said line or lines of road, after being so located, established, built, or constructed, shall be changed, moved, or extended without the consent in writing of said commission thereto being first had and obtained, and upon the further condition that an agreement satisfactory to said commission and approved by it shall be entered into on the part of said company for the proper maintenance of the crossing of said Dry Valley road, and at all times keeping the same in proper repair and condition.
Approved, May 7, 1898.