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 i E FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 2, 3, 5. 1869. 3 i mine the same, after notice to all parties, without the intervention of a Q jury, and the judgement of the said court shall be final. Judgment. Q Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from When acttakes the date of its passage. °E°°*· 5 Approved, March 18, 1869. CHAP. III. —An Act for lhefurther Security of equal Rights in the District xy" Columbia.   Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United  States of America in Congress assembled, That the word " white," where- “The word  ever it occurs in the laws relating to the District of Columbia, or in the Ia:l;‘$cl;ll!Q¤ll‘° I . . . . l g to e charter or ordinances of the c1t1es of Washington or Georgetown, and the District of  operates as a limitation on the right of any elector of such District, or of ¤<>*¤·¤bi¤, &¤· 5 either of the cities, to hold any office, or to be selected and to serve as a  gv juror, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and it shall be unlawful for 1  alpy person orfofficer to enforce or attempt to enforce such limitation after  i e passage o this act.  APPROVED, March 18, 1869. E CHAP. V.- An Act to incorporate the National Junction Railway Company. March 29, T869- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United i States of America in Congress assembled, That James A. Magruder, John _N¤l¢i0}¤¤lJ¤¤¤- L. Kidwell, C. H. Cragin, John W. Thompson, Hallet Kilboum, Alex- %g;§;:);lv?gcOr_ ander R. Shepard, and William H. Tenney, of the District of Columbia, pointed.  together with such other persons as may become associated with them 18%°*;¤;°6*ld°d» g for that purpose, together with their successors, are hereby created and pm;; `1673 g erected into a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name e and title of the National Junction Railway Company, and by that name  have perpetual succession, and shall be able to sue and to be sued, to  plead and be impleaded, to defend and be defended, in the courts of law, and equity within the District of Columbia, and may use a common seal,  and may adopt by-laws for the regulation of its government.  Seo. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation is hereby Powers of cor-  fully authorized and empowered to survey, locate, lay out, construct, col- p°"m°“‘ Iect tolls upon, maintain, and enjoy a, railway line, with appurtenances and machinery necessary for one or more tracks, within the District of Columbia, commencing at the northern terminus of the aqueduct bridge, Line of reil- in the city of Georgetown, or at some eligible point on the south shore W”t$'£0mti0u ifi; of the Potomac river above and near said bridge; thence in a north- charged_ A easterly direction by the most feasible route crossing Rock creek, enter· POM, P· 167-] VB ing the city of lVashington, and passing through either S, T, or U Street west, [north,] around the city of Washington, crossing the branches of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad upon the legally established grades of the city, in. such a manner as not to be dangerous to passengers and trains on either road; thence to a point most feasible on the Potomac river, or  eastern branch of thesame, at or near the navy yard, at apoint to be  indicated by the Secretary of the Navy, with the rights, powers, and privileges to construct the said road, the grades of the road to be approved Grade? "°b° by the authorities of the cities of Washington and Georgetown ; also the approve '  privileges of locating and constructing n grand Union depot on the line Grand Union  of said road, at some point between Third Street west and Fourteenth d°p°°  Street west, in Washington city; also a similar depot at some conven- Other depot-  ient point in Georgetown, near the said aqueduct.  Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said National 05PM] Simi?  Junction railway shall consist of five thousand shares of one hundred Number of  `dollars each, which shall in all respeotsy be deemed personal property, iygssgrggg h°·*  apdushall   transferable in such manner as the by-laws of said company `  s a provide.