Chapter 102. To amend section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad 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
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CHAP. 102.— An Act To amend section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad 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. February 9, 1909.[[H. R. 15448](/us/bill/70/hr/15448).].][[Public, No. 223.](/us/pl/70/223)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States*District of Columbia.Washington, Alexandria anil Mount Vernon Railway Company.Motive power at new highway bridge.Vol. 31. p. 773, amended. *of America in Congress assembled*, That section twelve of the “Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimoreand Potomac Railroad 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, providing among other things that a standard underground electric system of street-car propulsion shall be installed by the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company on the park highway leading to the new highway bridge, and that no dynamo furnishing power to said portion of the road shall be in any manner connected with the ground, is hereby amended by inserting after the words “shall be paid by said company” the words “*Provided, however*,*Proviso.*Overhead wire al lowed at north approach.
That said company, for the purpose of making the necessary change from underground to overhead wire in the conduct and operation of its cars at the north end of the new highway bridge, shall be permitted to use an approved overhead wire system on the approach to said bridge for a distance of not more than three hundred and fifty feet from the northerly or Washington end of the bridge; the location, construction,Construction, etc. and maintenance of all parts of the overhead and underground systems of the necessary plow pits and of the asphalt or other paving between the tracks and the two feet outside thereof on the bridge and both approaches to be subject at all times to the supervision, instructions, and approval of the Secretary of War: and all instructions and requirementsInstructions, etc. of the Secretary of War shall be fully complied with by the said company within the time specified, at its own expense and without cost to the United States.
” Approved, February 9, 1909.