Chapter 343. Authorizing the Secretary of War to lease to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway Company a tract of land in the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, in the State of Montana, and for a right of way thereto for the removal of gravel and ballast material
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CHAP. 343.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of War to lease to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway Company a tract of land in the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, in the State of Montana, and for a right of way thereto for the removal of gravel and ballast material.August 23, 1912.[[S. 4301](/us/bill/62/s/4301).][[Public, No. 292](/us/pl/62/292).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Keogh Military Reservation.
Mont.Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway Companygranted lease and right of way on. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to make and execute a lease to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway Company, a corporation of the State of Washington, of a tract of land lying in the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, in the State of Montana, containing an approximate area of forty acres, lying northerly of the right of way now owned by said railway company, granted by the ActVol. 34, p. 187. approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, and also a right of way not exceeding fifty feet in width extending from the present right of way of said company at a point near the westerly boundary of said reservation in an easterly and northeasterly direction to said tract, a distance of approximately three and one-half miles; and said railway company is authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a spur railroad track upon said right of way and to take and remove earth, gravel, and ballast material from said tract for the improvement of its railroad.
Said lease shall contain such provisions inCondition of lease. respect to the fencing of said right of way and gravel tract, the construction of crossings and cattle guards at highways, and the delivery, free of charge, annually, of such quantity of sand or gravel for use upon the wagon roads and walks at Fort Keogh during the time that material shall be taken from said tract, and such other conditions as the Secretary of War shall deem advisable. Approved, August 23, 1912.