Chapter 257. To amend an Act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia, approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven
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CHAP. 257.— An Act To amend an Act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia, approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven. March 3, 1909.[[[S. 9006](/us/bill/70/s/9006).][[[Public, No. 810](/us/pl/70/810).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section eighteen of anDistrict of Columbia.Time extended for constructing Washington,, Spa Springs mid Gretta Railroad.Vol. 34, p. 896, amended.
Act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland, a corporation created by the laws of the State of Maryland and authorized by an Act of Congress approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, to extend its line into the District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “Sec. 18. That the construction of the said extension on the linesTime of construction. of said railroad company within the District of Columbia shall be commenced within six months from the passage of this Act and shall be completed and cars in operation within one year from the passage of this Act, in default of which this Act shall be void and of no effect: *Provided*, That the tracks of the Washington, Spa Springs and*Provisos.*Widening Bladensburg road.
Gretta Railroad shall be located approximately in the middle of Bladensburg road, as the same shall be ultimately widened to a width of ninety feet: and that the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company shall,, in conjunction with its track construction, grade and macadamize, to such section and profile as is approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, a width of fifteen feet on both sides of its track construction; and that the Washington,Costs. Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company shall bear and defray all costs of this widening, which shall be done to the entire satisfaction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia: *And provided further*, That all the rights, duties, obligations, and requirements asPermits and deposits. to permits and deposits contained in the Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia shall, in conjunction with this amendment, remain in full force and effect.
” Approved, March 3, 1909.