Chapter 244. To authorize and direct certain extensions of the City and Suburban Railway of Washington, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 244.— An Act To authorize and direct certain extensions of the City and Suburban Railway of Washington, and for other purposes. May 17, 1910.[[H. R. 23906](/us/bill/61/hr/23906).][[Public, No. 182](/us/pl/61/182).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the City and Suburban District of Columbia. City and Suburban Railway. Extension of tracks, etc. Railway of Washington be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to remove its double tracks from Michigan avenue, and to restore the roadbed of the said Michigan avenue with macadam, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from the intersection thereof with Monroe street northeast eastwardly to the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and to extend its double tracks on Monroe street northeast eastwardly from said intersection and over the Monroe Street Bridge to Twelfth street northeast; thence on Twelfth street northwardly to the Bunker Hill road; and thence northwardly, on such streets, avenues, or roads as may be designated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to the boundary line of the District of Columbia.
Sec. 2. That the removal of existing tracks east of the intersection Removal of existing tracks. of Monroe street and Michigan avenue and the extension of the new double track on Monroe street to Twelfth street northeast and on Twelfth street northeast from Monroe street to the Bunker Hill road shall be completed within nine months from the date of the passage of this Act; and the construction of that portion of the extension herein Time of construction. authorized from the Bunker Hill road to the District line shall be commenced within one year from the date of the opening and grading of the streets as designated and completed within one year thereafter; and in default of the commencement or completion, by said City and Penalty for failure.
Suburban Railway of Washington, of any extension herein authorized within the period herein set for such commencement or completion said company shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars for each and every day during which such failure or neglect shall continue, which 372 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. Widening roadways. And the cost of widening any roadway in which the tracks herein authorized shall be laid to sufficient width, in the opinion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to reasonably accommodate vehicular travel, including the relaying and readjustment of every public appurtenance, shall be paid by the City and Suburban Railway Deposit for cost, etc. of Washington.
In the event of the failure or refusal of the said company to make the necessary deposits with the collector of taxes to pay the cost of said work the commissioners are hereby authorized to do the work as above and to pay for the same from the then current appropriation for repairs to streets and to collect the amount of said expenditures from the said railway company in the same manner as the cost of laying pavements between the rails and tracks of street railways, Vol. 20, p. 105. as provided in section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; said amount, when collected as above, to be placed to the credit of the appropriation for repairs to streets for the fiscal year in which it is collected.
Sec. 3. Rights, privileges, etc. That the said City and Suburban Railway of Washington shall have, over and respecting the routes herein provided for, the same rights, powers and privileges, duties and obligations, as it has and hereafter may have by law over and respecting its present route, and shall be subject in respect thereto to all the other provisions of its charter and of law. Sec. 4. Inconsistent laws repealed. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. Amendment. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. Approved, May 17, 1910.