Chapter 6. To authorize the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Reno and Fort Sill military reservations in the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 6.— An Act To authorize the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Fort Reno and Fort Sill military reservations in the Territory of Oklahoma, and for other purposes. January 31, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Chicago, Rock Island Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway granted right of way through Fort Reno and Fort Sill Reservations, Okla. and Pacific Railway Company, a corporation created under and by virtue of the laws of the States of Illinois and Iowa, be, and the same is hereby, empowered to survey, locate, construct, and maintain a railway, telegraph, and telephone line through the Fort Reno and Fort Sill military reservations in the Territory of Oklahoma, upon such a line as shall be determined and approved by the Secretary of War.
Sec. 2. That said corporation is authorized to take and use for all —width purposes of a railway, telegraph, and telephone line, and for no other purpose, a right of way one hundred feet in width through said Fort Reno and Fort Sill military reservations and a right to take and use a Land for stations, etc. strip of land in each of said reservations two hundred feet in width, with a length of three thousand feet, in addition to right of way, for stations, with the right to use such additional ground when cuts and fills may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of the roadbed, not exceeding one hundred feet in width on each side of said right of way, or as much thereof as may be included in said cut or fill: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Restrictions on grant. That no part of the lands herein authorized to be taken shall be leased or sold by the company, and they shall not be used except in such manner and for such purposes as shall be necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said railway, telegraph, and telephone lines; and when any portion thereof shall cease to be used, such portion shall revert to the United States, from which the same shall have been taken. Approved, January 31, 1900.