Chapter 3579. Granting to the Ocean Shore Railway Company a right of way for railroad purposes across Pigeon Point Light-House Reservation, in San Mateo County, California
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CHAP. 3579.— An Act Granting to the Ocean Shore Railway Company a right of way for railroad purposes across Pigeon Point Light-House Reservation, in San Mateo County, California. June 28, 1906. [[H. R. 15078](/us/bill/59/hr/15078).] [[Public, No. 328](/us/pl/59/328).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Pigeon Point Light-House Reservation, Cal. Ocean Shore Railway Company granted right of way across.
That a right of way be, and the same hereby is, granted to the Ocean Shore Railway Company, a a railroad corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California, its successors and assigns, over, upon, and across the United States Light-House Reservation at Pigeon Point, in the county of San Mateo, State of California, forty feet in width, being twenty feet in width on the northerly side and twenty feet in width on the southerly side of a center line described as follows, namely:
Description. Beginning at a point on the southeasterly boundary line of a tract known as the “nine-acre lot,” which shall be twenty-eight feet, more or less, from the northeasterly corner of said lot; thence westerly 549 eight hundred feet, more or less, along a circular curve, to the right, whose radius shall be one thousand nine hundred and ten feet to a point on the northwesterly boundary of said lot, one hundred and twenty-five feet, more or less, northerly from the southwesterly corner; said right of way as thus described containing seventy-three one-hundredths of an acre, more or less: *Provided*, That the Ocean Shore *Provisos*.
Fences, etc. Railway Company, its successors and assigns, shall place a suitable fence on each side of the said right of way, with proper gates and cattle guards, and shall also place a watering trough with pipe one inch in diameter laid eighteen inches under the surface, with suitable cocks and fittings, joining said trough with the water tank now at or near the northwest corner of said “nine-acre lot,” all to be placed and maintained to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and without expense to the United States; and the officers, employees, and Right of ingress and egress reserved. agents of the United States shall have the right of ingress and egress to and from the right of way herein granted, and shall at all times have access to the water pipes laid underground across said right of way: *Provided further*, That the Ocean Shore Railway Company, its Light-house freight. successors and assigns, shall deliver light-house freight shipped over that road and billed to Pigeon Point light-station as near the said “nine-acre lot” as practicable, and not in any case to exceed one-fourth of a mile from said “nine-acre lot.
” Sec. 2. That Congress expressly reserves the right to alter, amend, Amendment. or repeal this Act, in whole or in part, without liability on the part of the United States for any damages or losses sustained by said company. Sec. 3. That said right of way shall be used for railroad purposes Reversion. only, and if at any time it ceases to be so used then and in that event said grant shall be terminated and said property revert to the United States; and the right herein granted shall be forfeited by said company, Time of completion. its successors and assigns, unless the road shall be constructed through the said reservation within three years after the passage of this Act.
Approved, June 28, 1906.