Chapter 18. Granting permission and authority to the Orleans levee board to move, without cost to the United States, the existing line of levee in front of the marine-hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana
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CHAP. 18.— An Act Granting permission and authority to the Orleans levee board to move, without cost to the United States, the existing line of levee in front of the marine-hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana. February 13, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, New Orleans, La. Orleans levee board may move line of levee in front of marine hospital, etc. That permission and authority be, and they are hereby, granted to the Orleans levee board to move, without cost to the United States, the existing line of levee in front of the United States marine-hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the square bounded by State street, Henry Clay avenue, Tehoupitoulas street, and the Mississippi River; said line of levee to be moved outwardly in the direction of said river to the new line of Front street, opening of, etc. levee established by the said Orleans levee board, and that the city of New Orleans be, and it is hereby, authorized to extend, lay out, open and to keep open, through the said marine-hospital property, the street known as Front street, one hundred and ten feet wide, extending from Penniston street to the upper limits of the city of New Orleans, a distance of about five miles, as provided for under ordinance of the city of New Orleans, numbered fifteen thousand and eighty, council series, approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: *Provisos*. —limit on use of by railroads, etc. *Provided*, That in case the said city of New Orleans has granted, or shall grant, a right of way over said street to any railway company, corporation, firm, or person, or that said street shall be used for railway purposes, such grant, privilege, or use shall be upon condition that no part of said street within the limits of said marine-hospital property (or within one thousand feet from the same) shall be used for depot purposes, or railroad yard, or for the purpose of switching, 29 shifting, or parking cars, or making up or breaking up trains of cars, or for any other purpose than the ordinary transit, without stopping, of railway trains: *And provided further*, That the inner line of said —location of inner line of, etc.
Front street shall not be located at any point nearer than eight feet to the present iron fence inclosing the grounds of said marine-hospital property; and the violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall, Penalty. as to the person, company, railway company, municipal corporation, or other corporation so violating any of said provisions, cause a revocation of all rights and privileges given or granted by this Act. Sec. 2. That jurisdiction, power, and authority be, and are hereby, Jurisdiction over street granted city, etc. recognized by the United States as existing in the city of New Orleans to regulate and make improvements in said street as thus opened and extended as fully and completely as over any other portion of said street, or as fully and completely as said city of New Orleans now has, by her charter and the laws of the State of Louisiana, power and authority to regulate, to make improvements in, or govern any other street in said city.
Approved, February 13, 1900.