Chapter 611. To amend the charter of the Capital Traction Company of the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 611.— An Act To amend the charter of the Capital Traction Company of the District of Columbia. June 2, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Capital Traction District of Columbia. Capital Traction Company. Company be, and the same is hereby, authorized and required, within six months from the passage of this Act, to lay down an underground electric railway, with the necessary switches and turn-outs in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, through and along the following streets and avenues, namely:
Beginning at the main tracks at Additional route authorized. the intersection of Pennsylvania avenue and Eighth street southeast, and thence easterly along said Pennsylvania avenue with double tracks to Fifteenth street east; thence by a single-track loop on Pennsylvania avenue, the circle, K, and Fifteenth streets, bounding square numbered one thousand and seventy-eight, and connecting with the double tracks at Pennsylvania avenue and Fifteenth street east; all work to be done in accordance with plans acceptable to and approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. That the said Capital Traction Company of the District of Rights, etc. Columbia shall have, over and respecting the route hereinbefore provided for, the same rights, powers, and privileges as it now has, or hereafter may have, by law over and respecting its other routes, and be subject in respect thereto to all the other provisions of its charter and law. Sec. 3. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal Amendment. this Act. Approved, June 2, 1900.