Chapter 222. To amend an Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six
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CHAP. 222.— An Act To amend an Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. May 29, 1908.[[S. 8405.]](/us/bill/70/s/8405)[[Public. No. 162.]](/us/pl/70/162) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Baltimore and WashingtonDistrict of Columbia.Baltimore and Washington Transit Company may extend line within.Vol. 29. p.264.
Transit Company, of Maryland, a corporation created by the laws of the State of Maryland, and authorized by Act of Congress to î extend its line into the District of Columbia by an Act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be. and is hereby, authorized and required to further extend its line of street railway within the District of Columbia over, along, and upon the following-describedRoute specified. route: Beginning where Third street northwest (as said street is designated on the map of the first section of the highway extension plan of said District) intersects the present line of the railway of said transit company; thence south on said Third street to Kennedy street; thence weston said Kennedy street to Colorado avenue; thence southwesterly along said Colorado avenue to the intersection of Fourteenth street northwest: *Provided*, That said company shall not construct its*Proviso.*Right of way obtained by condemnation, etc., dedicated as public highway. said railway over, along, or upon any portion of the aforementioned route which is not now a public highway of the District of Columbia until it shall have obtained, by dedication or condemnation, title to a right of way not less than thirty feet in width along such portion of said route as is not now a public highway; and before it shall have authority to lay tracks in said right of way it shall dedicate the same to the District of Columbia as a public highway.
Sec. 2. That the said transit company shall be empowered to construct,May construct street railway, etc. maintain, equip, and operate a single or double track street railway over said line, with all necessary buildings, switches, machinery, appliances, appurtenances, and other devices necessary to operate the same by electricity, compressed air, storage battery, or other motive power, to be approved by the Commissioners of said District: *Provided*, That if electric power propulsion is used upon*Provisos*.Restrictions on electric system. said extension or on any other portion of the line or lines of said company no portion of the electrical circuit shall be through the earth, but a return circuit of proper capacity and located similarly to the feed-wire circuit shall be provided for the electrical current, and that wherever the trolley system is used each car shall be provided with a double trolley, and that no earth connection shall be made with any dynamo furnishing power for the road. 1 hat section four of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington TransitVol. 29. p. 264. repealed.
Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia,” approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: *Provided, however*, That said railway shall be constructedConstruction, etc., requirements. of good material, with rails of approved pattern, and in a neat and substantial manner, subject to the supervision and approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; the standard gauge to be used and the surfaces of the tracks to conform to the grades of the streets established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and where the tracks lie within the streets of the District of Columbia, the same to be paved between the rails and two feet outside thereof with such material and in such manner as shall be approved by the said Commissioners, and kept in repair by the said railway 474 company.Repairs.
Sec. 3. That within sixty days from the approval of this Act theDeposit. company shall deposit one thousand dollars with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia to guarantee the construction of its railway within the prescribed time. If this sum is not so deposited, this charter shall be void. If the sum is so deposited and the road is notForfeiture. in operation as herein prescribed, said one thousand dollars shall be forfeited to the District of Columbia and this charter shall be void.
Sec. 4. That failure or neglect to comply with any of the provisionsPenalty. of this Act, except as hereinbefore provided for, shall render the said corporation liable to a tine of twenty-five dollars for each and every day during which such failure or neglect shall continue, which penalty may be recovered in the name of the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of the said District in any court of competent, jurisdiction: *Provided, however*, That unless the line of the said railway shall be*Proviso.*Time of completion, etc. completed, with cars running regularly thereon for the accommodation of passengers, within two years from the date of the passage of this Act this charter shall be null and void.
Sec. 5. That the said company, in conjunction with the CapitalFare. Traction Company, may receive a rate of fare not exceeding five cents for each passenger for one continuous ride over the route aforesaid and the route of the said Capital Traction Company within the. District of Columbia, or any part thereof, and shall sell tickets at the rate of six for twenty-five cents. Sec. 6. That all the powers, rights, duties, and limitations imposedLimitations, etc., of act, June 8. 1896. not affected. by the Act of Congress authorizing said Baltimore and Washington Transit Company to enter the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall be applicable to the extension of the line of said company as proposed herein except asExceptions. said Act may be amended by the provisions hereof, it being the intent that said original Act shall he applied to this extension in the same manner as if said extension had been included in the original Act.
Sec. 7. That the privileges herein granted are granted on theRegulations. express condition that cars shall be run under such rules as may from time to time be made by the District Commissioners, and any violation of which shall be a misdemeanor, and for any such violation said corporationPenalty for violation. shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not to exceed two hundred dollars. Sec. 8. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repealAmendment. this Act.
Approved, May 29, 1908.