Chapter 135. To authorize the Lawton and Fort Sill Electric Railway Company to construct and operate a railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines through the Fort Sill Military Reservation, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 135.— An Act To authorize the Lawton and Fort Sill Electric Railway Company to construct and operate a railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines through the Fort Sill Military Reservation, and for other purposes. March 28, 1910.[[H. R. 19628](/us/bill/61/hr/19628).][[Public, No. 111](/us/pl/61/111).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Fort Sill Military Reservation, Okla.Lawton and Fort Sill Electric Railway Company granted right of way across.
That the Lawton and Fort Sill Electric Railway Company, a corporation created under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Oklahoma, be, and the same is hereby, empowered to survey, locate, construct, maintain, and operate railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines through the Fort Sill Military Reservation, in Comanche County, State of Oklahoma, upon such terms and in such location as may be determined and approved by the Secretary of War. Sec. 2. Width, etc. That said corporation is authorized to occupy and use for all purposes of railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines, and for no other purpose, a right of way fifty feet in width through said Fort Sill Military Reservation, with the right to use such additional ground where cuts and fills may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of the roadbed, not exceeding one hundred feet in width, or as much thereof as may be included in said cut or fill: *Provisos*.Restriction of use. *Provided*, That no part of the land herein authorized to be occupied shall be used except in such manner and for such purposes as shall be necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said railway, telegraph, telephone, and trolley lines; and when any portion thereof shall cease to be so used such portion shall revert to the Approval of location by Secretary of War.United States: *Provided further*, That before the said railway company shall be permitted to enter upon any part of said military reservation a description by metes and bounds of the land herein authorized to be occupied or used shall be approved by the Secretary Maintenance, etc.of War: *Provided further*, That the said railway company shall comply with such other regulations and conditions in the maintenance and operation of said road as may from time to time be prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Sec. 3. Amendment. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved. Approved, March 28, 1910.