before commencing any work on such street and no steam cars, locomotives, or passenger or other cars for steam railroads shall ever be run on the tracks of said company over any such main, fixture, Protection of or apparatus. The said railroad shall be subject to the requirewater pipes, etc. ments of section fifteen of the act of Congress approved February Vol. 26., p. 793. twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington and Arlington Railway Company Deposit to de- of the District of Columbia." The said company shall, before comfray expenses. mencing work on said railroad on such street, deposit with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the Washington Aqueduct such sum as the Secretary of War may consider necessary to defray all the expenses that may be incurred by the United States in connection with the inspection of the work of construction of said railroad on such street, and in making good any damages done by said company, or its works, or by any of its contracting agents, to any of said mains, fixtures, or apparatus, and in completing, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, any of the work that the said company may neglect or refuse to complete and that the Secretary of War may consider necessary for the safety of said mains, fixtures, or apparatus, and the said company shall also deposit as aforesaid such further sums for said purposes at such times as the Secretary of War may consider necessary: Provided, Disburse That the said sums shall be disbursed like other moneys appropriated for the Washington Aqueduct, and that whatever shall remain of said deposits at the end of one year after the completion of said Return of bal- railroad in such street shall be returned to said company on the order of the Secretary of War, with an account of their disbursement in detail: And provided also, That disbursements of said deposits shall, except in case of emergency, be made only on the orRights to ter der of the Secretary of War. The exercise of the rights by this act granted are to terminate at the pleasure of the Secretary of War in case of persistent neglect by said company, or by its successors, to make the deposits, or to comply with any of the conditions, requirements, and regulations aforesaid. ments. ance. minate on neglect, etc. Amendment, etc. * * * SEC. 4. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act. Approved, July 5, 1892. July 5, 1892. ban Railway CHAP. 144.-An act to incorporate the District of Columbia Suburban Railway Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United District of Co- States of America in Congress assembled, That Richard K. Cralle, lumbia Subur- I Charles E. Creecy, John T. Mitchell, M. F. Morris, J. W. Denver, Company incor- L. G. Hine, Gilbert Moyers, S. E. Mudd, Robert A. Howard, W. porated. I. Hill, John W. Childress, J. F. Kenney, D. W. Glassie, Harry Incorporators. Barton, Philemon W. Chew, T. C. Daniel, G. P. Davis, Jere Johnson and L. C. Loomis, and their associates successors, and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate by the name, style, and title of "The District of Columbia Suburban Railway Company," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended. in all courts of law and equity within the United States, and may Maylay tracks, make and have a common seal. And said corporation is hereby authorized to construct and lay down a single or double track railway, as may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, with the necessary switches, turn-outs, and other mechanical devices, in the District of Columbia, through and along the following routes: Beginning at the dividing line between the Bladensburg District of Columbia and the State of Maryland, on the Bladensburg road, and running thence along the said road so that the outer rail of said railway shall not be more than five feet from the eastern boundary of said Bladensburg road, to H. street east; thence west on H. street east to Seventh street east, over the tracks of the Columbia Railroad, etc. Routes. road. Also from the intersection of Florida avenue with Twelfth street northeast, to H street northeast, on Twelfth street: thence west on H street over the tracks of the Columbia road to Seventh street east; thence south on Seventh street by single track to G street east; thence west on G street by single track to First street west; thence by a route to be laid down by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia across New Jersey avenue to the tracks of the Capitol, North O and South Washington Railroad; thence on the tracks of the last-named road on G street to Fourth street, continuing west on G street west to Fifth street; thence south on Fifth street west, in part over the tracks of the Metropolitan Railroad, to Louisiana avenue: thence south-westerly by double track on Louisiana avenue to a point to be located by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia east of Seventh street west. Returning north-easterly on Louisiana avenue to Fifth street west; thence over the tracks of the Metropolitan Railroad along Judiciary Square to Fourth street west; thence north on Fourth street west by single track to E street west; thence east on E street by single track to Eighth street east; thence north by single track on Eighth street to H street; thence east over the tracks of the Columbia Railroad to Twelfth street; thence north on Twelfth street to Florida avenue: In Washing ton City. SEC. 2. That said company may run public carriages propelled by Motive power cable, electric, or other mechanical power: SEC. 8. That it shall be lawful for said corporation, its successors or assigns, to make all needful and convenient trenches and excavations in any of said streets, or places where said corporation may have the right to construct and operate its road, and place in such trenches and excavations all needful and convenient devices and machinery for operating said railroad in the manner and by the means aforesaid, subject to the approval of the said Commissioners. But whenever such trenches or excavations shall interfere with any sewer, gas, or water pipes, or any subways or conduits, or any public work of the kind which has been ordered by the Commissioners, then the expense necessary to change such underground construction shall be borne by the said railway company: Construction. War for work on streets havwater ** Provided also, That the construction of said railroad on Approval of any street where there are or may be any mains, fixtures, or ap- Secretary of paratus pertaining to the Washington Aqueduct shall be subject to such conditions as may be approved by the Secretary of War, ing which conditions must be obtained and be accepted in writing by mains, etc. said company before commencing any work on such street; and no steam cars, locomotives, or passenger or other cars for steam railroads shall ever be run on the tracks of said company over any such main, fixture or apparatus. Deposit to de The said railroad shall be subject to the requirements of section Protection of fifteen of the act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, water pipes, etc. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to incorporate Vol. 26, p. 793. the Washington and Arlington Railway Company of the District of Columbia." The said company shall, before commencing work on said railroad on such street. deposit with the Treasurer of the fray expenses. United States to the credit of the Washington Aqueduct such sum as the Secretary of War may consider necessary to defray all the expenses that may incurred by the United States in connection with the inspection of the work of construction of said railroad on such street, and in making good any damages done by said company, or its works, or by any of its contracting agents, to any of said mains. fixtures, or apparatus, and in completing, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, any of the work that the said company may neglect or refuse to complete and that the Secretary of War may consider necessary for the safety of said mains, fixtures, or apparatus, and the said company shall also deposit as aforesaid such further sums for said purposes at such times as the Secretary of War may consider necessary: Provided, That the said sum shall be disbursed like other moneys appropriated for Disbursement. Return of bal ance. the Washington Aqueduct, and that whatever shall remain of said deposits at the end of one year after the completion of said railroad in such street shall be returned to said company on the order of the Secretary of War, with an account of its disbursement in detail: And provided also, That disbursements of said deposits shall, except in cases of emergency, be made only on the order of Rights to ter- the Secretary of War. The exercise of the rights by this art granted are to terminate at the pleasure of the Secretary of War in case of persistent neglect by said company, or by its successors, to make the deposits, or to comply with any of the conditions, requirements, and regulations aforesaid. minate on neglect, etc. Commencement and completion. Amendment, etc. SEC. 11. That the line of said railway company shall be commenced within six months and completed within two years from the passage of this act, otherwise this act shall be of no effect. SEC. 23. This act may at any time be altered, amended, or repealed by the Congress of the United States. July 13, 1892. pany. Time for construction tended. CHAP. 157.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between the State of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road." · Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Bridge across States of America in Congress assembled, That, "An act to authorColumbia River ize the Oregon and Washington Bridge Company to construct and by Oregon and Washington maintain a bridge across the Columbia River, between the State Bridge Com- of Oregon and the State of Washington, and to establish it as a post road," approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be and the same is hereby, extended, revived, and deex-clared to be in full force and effect from and after March twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. Section twelve of said act, which provides that said act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge therein authorized be not commenced within two years and completed within four years from the date of the approval thereof, shall be, and the same is hereby, so amended that the time within which said bridge is required to be commenced shall be within two years from March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and the time within which it is required that said bridge be completed shall be within four years from the twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninetytwo. Vol. 26, p. 28. Approved, July 13, 1892. July 13, 1892. tions for rivers and harbors. CHAP. 158.-An act making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works or rivers and harbors, and for other pur: poses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropria- States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: Harbors. Camden, Me. Rockland, Me. Improving harbor at Camden, Maine: Continuing improvement, twelve thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Rockland, Maine: Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Mooseabec Bar, Maine: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at York, Maine: Completing improvement, nine thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: Completing improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Improvement of channel in Back Cove, Portland Harbor, Maine: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Mooseabec Bar, Me. York, Me. Portland, Me. Back Cove, Portland, Me. Mount Desert to Porcupine For construction of breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Maine: Continuing improvement, fifty thousand dol- Island, Me., lars. breakwater. Improving harbor at Belfast, Maine: Continuing improvement, Belfast, Me. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Little Harbor, New Hampshire,Little Harbor, Continuing improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, by deepening and widening the main channel to a depth of twenty-seven feet and a width of one thousand feet, three hundred thousand dollars, of which ten thousand dollars may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be used in the further prosecution of the work in Nantasket Beach Channel, and twenty-five thousand dollars in extending main ship channel from its termination at the southeast corner of Grand Junction wharf eastwardly towards Jeffrey's Point. N. H. Boston, Mass. Mass. Mass. Improving harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts: Continuing improve- Lynn, Mass ment, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the whole or any portion of this appropriation may be expended on the Western channel in the discretion of the Secretary of War. Improving harbor of refuge at Nantucket, Massachusetts: Con- Nantucket, tinuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Proviso. Improving harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts: Continuing Newburyport, improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Plymouth, Massachusetts: Completing im- Plymouth, provement, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For maintenance of works in harbor at Provincetown, Massa- Provincetown, chusetts, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Wareham, Massachusetts: Completing im- Wareham, provement, seven thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars. Improving harbor at Hyannis, Massachusetts: Continuing im- Hyannis, provement, six thousand dollars. Mass. Mass. Mass. Improving harbor at Hingham, Massachusetts: Completing im-Hingham, provement, three thousand dollars. Mass. Mass. Improving harbor at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts: Continu-Vineyard ing improvement, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Haven, Mass. Improving national harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay Cape Ann, Sandy Bay, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty Cape Ann, Mass. thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts: Continuing improvement, forty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Manchester, Massachusetts: Completing Manchester, improvement, six thousand eight hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Westport, Massachusetts: Completing improvement, one thousand dollars. Improving Canapitsit Channel, Massachusetts, between the is- Canapitsit lands of Cuttyhunk and Neshawana, completing improvement, four Channel, Mass. thousand eight hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Scituate, Massachusetts: Continuing im- Scituate, provement, ten thousand dollars." Mass. Improving harbor at Winthrop, Massachusetts: Continuing im-Winthrop, provement, three thousand dollars. Mass. ENG 92-219. Kingston, Improving harbor at Kingston, Massachusetts, and the apNorth Plym- proaches to the public wharves of said port and of North Plymouth, Mass. outh, Mass. Block Island, R. I. Newport, R. I. Point Judith, refuge. Proviso. Contracts. ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Block Island, Rhode Island: Completing improvement, twenty-four thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Newport, Rhode Island, including the removal of the spit at the south end of Goat Island, Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Constructing harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: R. I. Harbor of Continuing construction, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That contracts may be entered into by the Secretary of War for such materials and work as may be necessary to complete the present project of improvement, to be paid for as appropriations may, from time to time, be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate one million and one hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount herein and heretofore appropriated. Limit. Point Judith Pond, R. I. Bridgeport, Conn. Black Rock, Conn. New Haven, Conn.. waters. Improving entrance to Point Judith Pond, west of Point Judith, Rhode Island, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, between Inner Beacon and Naugatuck wharf, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Black Rock, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Constructing breakwaters at New Haven, Connecticut: Continubreak-ing construction, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Stonington, Conn. Clinton, Conn. Five-mile River, Conn. Duck Island, Conn. New Haven, Conn. Stamford, Conn. Cos Cob and Miamus River, Conn. Buffalo, N. Y. Rouses Point, N. Y. Canarsie Bay, N. Y. Charlotte, N. Y. Dunkirk, N. Y. Flushing Bay, N. Y. Glen Cove, N. Y. Gowanus Bay, N. Y. Bay Ridge Improving harbor at Stonington, Connecticut: Completing improvement, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Clinton, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, two thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Five-mile River, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Duck Island, on Long Island Sound, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New Haven, Connecticut: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Stamford, Connecticut: Fifteen thousand dollars, not less than one-half of which shall be expended on the East Branch. Improving harbor at Cos Cob and Miamus River, Connecticut, seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Buffalo, New York: Continuing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. Constructing breakwater at Rouses Point, New York: Completing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Canarsie Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Charlotte, New York: Continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Dunkirk, New York: Continuing improvement, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Flushing Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Glen Cove, New York: Continuing improvement, ten thousand dollars. Improving Gowanus Bay channels, New York: Continuing improvement, one hundre i thousand dollars, for distribution by allotment between the Red Hook and Gowanus Creek channels, at the discretion of the Secretary of War. Improving Bay Ridge channel, Gowanus Bay, New York HarChannel, N. Y. bor, New York: Completing improvement, ninety-eight thousand six hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Great Sodus Bay, New York: Continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Greenport, New York: Completing improvement, eleven thousand dollars. |