Chapter 435. Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to lease to Charleston-Dunbar Traction Company a certain strip or parcel of land owned by the United States Government on the Great Kanawha River in West Virginia
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CHAP. 435.— An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to lease to Charleston-Dunbar Traction Company a certain strip or parcel of land owned by the United States Government on the Great Kanawha River in West Virginia. September 1, 1916.[[H. R. 5103](/us/bill/64/hr/5103).][[Private, No. 147](/us/pl/64/147).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Charleston-Dunbar Traction Company. Lease of land to, Great Kanawha River improvement, W.
Va. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to lease, at a nominal rental value of not exceeding $50 per year, to the Charleston-Dunbar Traction Company, a corporation, its successors or assigns, the strip of land fifteen feet wide and six hundred and one and eight-tenths feet long, or approximately twenty-one hundredths of an acre, which said strip of land is situated at or near United States Government Lock and Dam Numbered Six of the Great Kanawha River improvement, near the city of Charleston, in the State of West Virginia, which said strip of land said Charleston-Dunbar Traction Company is now occupying with its track: *Provided*, That said annual rental shall be *Proviso*.
Payment, etc. promptly paid as required by the Secretary of War, and that the United States Government shall sustain no loss or expense by reason of said lease to said traction company: *And provided further*, That said Maintenance of crossings, etc. traction company shall not fence up said strip of land unless required to do so by the Secretary of War; and shall, at its own expense, keep up and maintain the existing crossings over said traction company’s line on the Government property: *And provided further*, That Station to be retained. said traction company shall not remove its station or stop upon or near the Government’s said property as said stop and station is at present located.
Approved, September 1, 1916.