Chapter 1303. To amend an Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and
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CHAP. 1303.— An Act To amend an Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one. March 2, 1905. [[S. 7157](/us/bill/58/s/7157).] [[Public, No. 123](/us/pl/58/123).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section twelve of theWashington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company.Time for completing underground electric system extended.Vol. 31, p. 773, amended.
“Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company, in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said Company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes.” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, requiring the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company, in case it made use of the highway bridge across the Potomac River, in said Act provided for, to install a standard underground electric system of street-car propulsion on the park highway leading to said bridge, and that no dynamo furnishing power to such portion of its road should be in any manner connected with the ground, is hereby amended so as to permit said company to operate its cars, from the present terminus of its underground electric system at Fourteenth street and Maryland avenue southwest to the north end of said new highway bridge, by a standard overhead trolley system such as is now used by said company from said terminus of its underground electric system, as above, to the north end of the present Long Bridge; the privilege hereby extended to said company, however, toTime of construction. expire at the end of fourteen months from the time said new highway bridge shall be opened for traffic, or such additional time thereafter asSecretary of War may grant additional time. the Secretary of War, who is hereby authorized to grant additional extensions of time, may deem that the new till made for the approach to the new highway bridge has become sufficiently settled to permit of the proper and safe construction and installation of a standard underground electric system: at the expiration of all of which times, however, the requirements of said section twelve, above referred to, shall become operative, and the said company shall be compelled to comply therewith as therein provided.
Approved, March 2, 1905.