United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 58
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LVIII.—An Act to authorize the construction of a rail-road, through lands of the United States in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The Western Rail-road may pass through the lands of the United States. That the Western Railroad corporation be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct a railroad on lands belonging to the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and take for the security and accommodation of said railroad, or the accommodation of the business thereof, a strip of land through or over said land of the United States, not exceeding eighty feet in width; Provided,Proviso.
Proviso. That the location of said railroad, through said land of the United States, shall be submitted to, and approved by the Secretary of War, prior to the construction thereof; And provided also, That whenever said strip of land shall cease to be improved for the purposes of a railroad, or the accommodation of the business thereof, that the same shall revert to the United States.
Approved, April 29, 1836.