Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 27.djvu/93

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66 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 143-144. 1892. apparatus pertaining to the Washington Aqueduct shall be subject to such conditions as may be approved by the Secretary of War, which conditions must be obtained and be accepted in writing by 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 Protection or water main, fixture, or apparatus. The said railroad shall be subject to the ¥'*P°*’· °‘°· requirements of section fifteen of the act of Congress approved February V0l.26,p/793. twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to incorporate the Washington and Arlington Railway Company of the District of Columbia? The said company shall, before commencing nepem to defray work on said railroad on such street, deposit with the Treasurer of the “P°““°°· 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, iixtures, 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, nxtures, or apparatus, and the said.company shall also deposit as aforesaid such further sums for said purposes at such D,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,_ times as the Secretary of War may consider necessary: Provided, 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 railroad in such Return of ummm. street shall he 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 order of the Secretary of War. The exercise mgm t,,,,,,,,,,.,,, of the rights by this act granted are to terminate at the pleasure of the ¤¤ ¤·>si•><=*· M- Secretary of War in ease 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. Increase or mam Sec. 2. That said company is authorized to increase its capital stock “°°k· three hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of enabling it to extend and equip its line as provided in this act, and to redeem bonds issued to take care of present indebtedness incurred in building and equipping the road already constructed, and no additional bonds shall be issued by said company without special authority of Congress. cqmmucemm and Sec. 3. That unless said extensions are commenced within three °°’¤¥**°**°¤· months and the cars run thereon within one year from the passage of 1·.¤»,p.ns. this act, except as otherwise expressly provided tor, the authority prcvsm. hereby granted shall be void: Provided, That said railroad shall be omaet, ea. constructed on such grade and in such manner as shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Amenelmenmetc. thSEc. 4. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal is act. Approved, July 5, 1892. July 5,189*2. CHAP. 144.-—An act to incorporate the District of Columbia Suburban Railway "“` v_' " y *‘’‘ ‘*‘ Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatii·z·es of the United Srpxiggggcgirxgia States of America in Congress assemblecl, That Richard K. Cralle, Charles C,,,;,,,,,, ijcorpg E, Creecy, John T. Mitchell, M. F. Morris, J. W'. Denver, L. G. Hine, rutucbmomm Gilbert Moyers, S, E Mudd, Robert Howard, W. I. Hill, John NV. ' Childress, J. F. Kenney, D. W. Glassie, Harry 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