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 FOR'I`Y—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 136-138. 1871. 585 each; three assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant, at nine hundred and sixt dollars. APPB.¥)VED, March 3, 1871. CHAP. CXXXVII.——An Act supplementary to "An Act to aulhorizethe Extension, Con- March 8, 1871. struction, and Use of a lateral Brunch ¢y"the Baltimore and Potomac R. R. C0., in, I0, and within the District of Columbia," approved February fjlh, eightem hundred and sixty- Vg], xiv. p. $87. seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and .H2usc of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Baltimore and P0t0· B¤l¤i¤¤¤¤‘¤_¤¤d mac Railroad Company be, and they are hereby, authorized to erect over £°;:§"é?m§:g§ their tracks on Virginia Avenue, between west Sixth Street and west may ereetapu. Seventh Street, in the city of Washington, a passenger depot building, ;‘m=!:;'ng°P°* coverin the followincr described are to wit: commencin at the inter- ·' section if the building line of south diide of south C Streeg produced and Location. the building line of east side of west Seventh Street produced, thence along last-mentioned line southward to a point, thence by line parallel with and forty feet distant northward from building line of southerly side of Virginia Avenue to a point in building line of west side of west Sixth Street produced, thence by last-mentioned line northward to a point, thence by line parallel with and forty feet distant southward from building line of northerly side of Virginia Avenue to a point, thence north- 'ward by line parallel with and eighty feet distant eastward from the building line of east side of west Seventh Street produced to a point in building line of south side of south C Street produced, thence by lastmentioned line westward to the place of beginning; which shall be of Shy]9, the same style of architecture as the depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at the city of Lancaster, in the State of Pennsylvania: Assent of mu· Provided, That the assent of the municipal authorities of the city of iQ;?:; ::*2;*; Washington or of the District of Columbia be first obtained to the erec- ,,bmmd_ tion of said depot. APPROVED, March 3, 1871. CHAP. CXXXVIII. -—An Act to regulate the Grade of Maryland Avenue from the End March 3, 1871. of the Lang Bridye 0 Twel/M Street. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives 0 f the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Baltimore and fotomac Grade ofMm·y- Railroad Company are hereby authorized, at the expense of said com- 1:2; \·:':l';‘:g°dh pany, to change the grade of Maryland Avenue, so as to establish a descending grade of one and seventy-five one·hundredths feet per one hundred feet from the centre of Twelfth Street south to the centre of Thirteen-and-a-half Street south, and a descending grade of one and thirty-one hundredths feet per one hundred feet from the centre of Thirteen-and·a-half' Street south to the top of the abutment of the Long bridge over the Potomac river, as newly constructed; the present grade at the centre of Twelfth Street south to be reduced two feet, and the Denlagesto level of the tcp of the new abutment of the Long bridge not to be more P"°P°’ ·Y°w“°”‘ than nine feet above the height of the old abutment: Provzded, That if any actual damage shall be sustained by the owners of any property on said avenue, or on the streets connecting therewith, by reason of such change of grade, said railroad shall pay such damagee as shall he sus- m$;¤;§g::b° tained, to be recovered in any court of competent Jurisdiction in the whim mlm_ District of Columbia: Provided further, That such change of grade shall vision. be made under the supervision of the ppoyéeii mgnieipatl auplliormes of the cit of Washin ton or of the District 0 0 um ia, an m e manner to be aipproved by Eaid municipal authority. A1-PROv1s·1>, March 3, 1871.