Chapter 27. Granting to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company a right to change the location of its right of way across the Niobrara Military Reservation
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CHAP. 27.— An Act Granting to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company a right to change the location of its right of way across the Niobrara Military Reservation. January 21, 1909.[[S. 8143](/us/bill/70/s/8143).][[Public No. 192](/us/pl/70/192).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Chicago and NorthwesternNiobrara Military Reservation, Nebr.Chicago and Northwestern RailwayCom- fiany may change lcation of right of way across.
Railway Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the States of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, which has become the owner of and is engaged in the operation of the railroad constructed by the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company across and through the Niobrara Military Reservation, located in the State of Nebraska, under and pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act granting right of way to theVol. 22. p. 431, amended.
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company across the Niobrara Military Reservation in the State of Nebraska,” which was Eassed and approved on the twenty-eighth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby granted the right to change the location of its right of way and of its railroad where they now cross the south half of section eight, township thirty- three north, range twenty-seven west of the sixth principal meridian, and is hereby granted in place of said right of way granted to the said Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company by the said act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty- three, a new right of way not exceeding four hundred feet in width,New right of way. to be so selected as not to interfere with any buildings or improvements on said reservation, and the location thereof to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, across and through that portion of said military reservation embraced within said south half of section eight, township thirty-three north, range twenty-seven west of the sixth principal meridian.
Sec. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is herebyAmendment. expressly reserved. Approved, January 21, 1909.