Chapter 362. To amend an Act approved May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia,” approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six
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CHAP. 362.— An Act To amend an Act approved May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia,” approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. August 21, 1916[[S. 5976](/us/bill/64/s/5976)][[Public, No. 217](/us/pl/64/217)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That section two of an ActDistrict of Columbia.Baltimore and Washington Transit Company.Vol. 29, p. 264. approved May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,” be amended to read as follows:
" “Sec. 2. That the said transit company shall be empowered toConstruction and motive power.Vol. 35, p. 473, amended. construct, maintain, equip, and operate a single or double track street railway over said fine, with all necessary buildings, switches, machinery, appliances, appurtenances, and other devices necessary to operate the same by electricity, compressed air, storage battery, or other motive power, to be approved by the Public Utilities Commission of said District. " That section four of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize theFormer restriction repealed.Vol. 29, p. 264.
Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia,” approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: *Provided, however*,*Proviso*.Construction, etc., subject to Public Utilities Commission, etc. That said railway shall be constructed of good material, with rails of approved pattern, and in a neat and substantial manner, subject to the supervision and approval of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia; the standard gauge to be used, and the surfaces of the tracks to conform to the grades of the streets established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and where the tracks lie within the streets of the District of Columbia the said transit company shall comply with the laws and regulations relating to the paving and repairing of streets in the District of Columbia.
Approved, August 21, 1916.