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 FIFTY-SECOND CON GRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 118,119. 1892. 51 the Secretary of War and shall have been approved by him and the smemv of warm portion of said tract of land owned by the United States to be used for °m"°"° P1"“"*°‘°‘ such stated purposes shall have been specially designated by him, and that no ditches shall be nlled, nor embankments removed, nor structures built, repaired, altered, or removed, nor improvements of any sort begun until the extent and plans of such proposed work shall have been described in detail to the Secretary of War and shall have received his approval. Second, That said city of New Bedford shall have and exercise power P<>1i¤¤ 1><>w¤r¤· to make and enforce police regulations concerning said tract, and shall properly protect all said property from injury. Third, That the United States reserves to itself the fee in said tract F°° *°”"'°“· and the right to resume immediate and entire possession whenever either of the above provisions shall have been violated, and also to resume possession and occupy any portion thereof whenever, in the judgment of the President, the exigency arises that should require the use and appropriation of the same for public defense or otherwise, or for such other disposition as Congress may determine, without any claim for compensation to said town for improvement thereon or damage on account thereoil Approved, June 15, 1892. CHAP. 119.-An act to authorize the Glen Echo Railroad Company to cross the -1 mw 15- 1892- Washington Aqueduct. —"_"`"’""_` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Glen Echo Railroad CGM F¤1¤¤ R¤11*¤=•1 Company, a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the State °"`p“”y` of Maryland, is hereby authorized to extend and operate its line of railway across the Washington Aqueduct and the land pertaining thereto m§f2Y?gs:;:'3*h*“¥· in Montgomery county in said State: Provided, That the said crossing promo;.= over the paved portion of the said conduit road shall be made at right -- ` angles with the said road 3Ild shall be made only at such place, in such i manner, and on such conditions as shall be approved by the Secretary Approval by sweof \Var and accepted by said company, and no work shall be done on *""°‘W‘"‘ said railroad on any of said land until after such approval a11d acceptance in writing. At no point on the line of said Glen Echo Railroad, except at the crossing aforesaid, or of any extension of said railroad under whatever name, shall the inner rail be less tha11 fifty feet from the middle of the paved portion of the conduit road. The operations of said company on said crossing shall always be subject to the control of the Secretary of WVar and to such requirements not provided for in this act as the Secretary of ¥Var may from time to time consider necessary for the safety of the aqueduct and of the public, and subject also to the right of the Secretary of War or other lawful public authority to interrupt the construction or use of said crossing whenever and for whatever reason it may be considered necessary for the public interests; and the agents and servants of said company, when on the public land of the United States, shall be subject to such regulations as the Secretary of WVar may prescribe. The said crossing shall be raised by and Grnde ¤1¤=¤¤e¤¤- at the expense of said company to conform to any change of grade on the conduit road, and said company shall pave with stone and to the satisfaction of the engineer officer in charge of the \Vashington Aqueduct the spaces between the rails and sets of rails and two feet outside thereof and shall keep the same in good repair. nfllcient signals by $is¤¤=1¤- gong or bell shall be made by every car before and during the crossing of the Conduit road, and before crossing every car shall be brought to a complete stop, and no steam cars, locomotives, or passenger or other cars for steam railways shall ever be run over said crossing. The said company shall, before commencing work on said crossing, deposit with Expensesthe Treasmer of the United States, to the credit of the Washington