Chapter 579. To require the Brightwood Railway Company to abandon its overhead trolley on Kenyon street, between Seventh and Fourteenth streets
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Chap. 579: To require the Brightwood Railway Company to abandon its overhead trolley on Kenyon street, between Seventh and Fourteenth streets. Chapter 579 30 Stat. 719 1898-07-07 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 2025-11-03 55 2 30 public chap. 579.— An Act To require the Brightwood Railway Company to abandon its overhead trolley on Kenyon street, between Seventh and Fourteenth streets.
July 7, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Brightwood RailwayDistrict of Columbia.Brightwood railway to abandon overhead trolley on Kenyon street. Company of the District of Columbia be, and it is hereby, required, within one month from the passage of this Act, to vacate that part of its road lying on Kenyon and Marshall streets, between Seventh and Fourteenth streets, in said District, and remove its tracks and poles therefrom: *Provided, however*, That said company shall have the right*Provisos*.—may substitute underground electric power. at any time within one year from the passage of this Act to equip and operate said road with underground electric power, such as is now used by the Metropolitan Railroad Company.
In case said company shall neglect or refuse to equip said road as aforesaid within said period of one year, then their right to do so shall stand as forfeited and their charter repealed as to said part of said road: *And provided further*,Failure to remove tracks, etc.—forfeiture. That in case said railroad company shall refuse to remove, its tracks and poles from said street within thirty days as aforesaid, then its charter to that part of said road shall stand forfeited and regaled from said date, and after the expiration of said thirty days said Brightwood—fine.
Railway Company shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars a day for each day its tracks, or any part thereof, or its poles, or any one of them, shall remain in said Kenyon or Marshall streets, said fine to be collected in any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Sec. 2. That said railway company, for the purpose only of equippingBonds to aid underground electric equipment. said branch with underground electric power, shall have the right to issue its bonds bearing interest not to exceed six per centum per annum, payable at such time as the officers of the company may deem expedient: *Provided*, That the issue of said bonds shall not in the—limit of issue. aggregate exceed the amount necessary for the equipment aforesaid, and the total outstanding bonds and stock shall in no event exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per mile of single track.
Sec. 3. That the Brightwood Railway Company is hereby directed toIssue of coupon tickets. sell four coupon tickets for twenty-five cents for use over the lines of said company and the Capital Traction Company and to redeem the—use on Capital Traction road, etc. coupons when presented by said Capital Traction Company, and the provisions of section five of the Act approved February twenty sixth,Penalty, etc., for refusal to accept or sell tickets.Vol. 28, p. 883. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to amend the charter of the Metropolitan Railroad Company of the District of Columbia,” which relate to the issue, use. and redemption of said tickets and coupons in the case of the Brightwood Railway and the Metropolitan Railroad companies, and the penalty for violation of the provisions of said section of said Act, and the recovery of said penalty, and the720FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 579–582. 1898. authority and jurisdiction of certain courts to enforce the requirements and provisions of said section, shall apply to the issue, use, and redemption of coupon tickets on the lines of said Brightwood Railway and Capital Traction companies; and the aforesaid provisions of said section are hereby made a part of this Act. Approved, July 7, 1898.
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