Chapter 28. Granting additional right of way to the Allegheny Valley Railway Company through the arsenal grounds at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
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CHAP. 28.— An Act Granting additional right of way to the Allegheny Valley Railway Company through the arsenal grounds at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. February 28, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Allegheny Valley Allegheny Valley Railway granted right of way through arsenal grounds, Pittsburg, Pa. Railway Company be, and it is hereby, authorized to extend its tracks over and occupy all that portion of the Allegheny Arsenal property in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, which adjoins the present right of way of said Allegheny Railway, bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at a point on the south building line of Fortieth Location. street, at a distance of ten and fifty-eight one-hundredths feet from the center line of the north-bound track of the Allegheny Valley Railway; thence along the western wall of the United States arsenal south twelve degrees thirty-five minutes west five hundred and seventy-six and seventy one-hundredths feet to a point on the north building line of Thirty-ninth street, said point being distant thirteen and twenty-seven one-hundredths feet (measured along the north building line of Thirty-ninth street) from the center of the said north-bound track of the Allegheny Valley Railway; thence south fifty-three degrees fifty-two minutes west eleven and twenty-two one-hundredths feet along the north building line of Thirty-ninth street to a point; thence north twelve degrees twenty-one minutes east five hundred and seventy-five and sixty-two one hundredths feet to a point on the south building line of Fortieth street; thence north fifty-three degrees fifty-two minutes west thirteen and nine-tenths feet to the place of beginning, containing seven thousand six hundred and fifty-five square feet: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.
Valuation. the value of said property shall be fixed by a competent board of officers to be appointed by the Secretary of War, which value shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States before the occupation by 36 Replacing stone boundary wall, etc. said company of said strip: *And provided further*, That the stone boundary wall on the Allegheny River front of the Allegheny Arsenal, which must be removed to permit the desired extension of the railway, be replaced, or its equivalent, on the new boundary line, all free of cost to the United States, and to be approved by the Secretary of War:
Construction of siding, etc. *And provided further*, That the said Allegheny Valley Railway Company shall construct for the use of the Government, on the approval of the Secretary of War, a siding about five hundred and seventy-seven feet long through the said arsenal property, said siding paralleling the said strip of ground hereinbefore described, all free of cost to the United States in addition to the price paid for the said property. Approved, February 28, 1900.