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 770 FIFTY-sixrn CONGRESS. sm. 11. cu. esa 1901. ing, maintaining, or repairing therein sewers, water mains, gas mains, conduits, or other underground construction necessary for the public comfort, convenience, or health: And provided fur!/wr, That no portion of any street shall be closed under authority of this Act until said railroad company shall have secured control of the property abutting upon said portion to be closed, it being the intent hereof that no property owner shall be deprived of egress from or ingress to his property. CHANGES IN GRADE; WIDENING B STREET. c,g°,,“g§‘gS,§‘§§S$" "‘“" The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to make all such changes in the lines and grades of any street or streets in said city as may be reasonably required or deemed necessary or advisable in connection with the revision, change, improvement, and partial relocation of said railroad by this Act con- W*d°“i“¤BS“°€°- templated, and particularly are authorized and directed to widen B street northwest, on its southerly side, between Sixth and Seventh streets, so as to conform to the southerl line of said street as it now exists west of Seventh street, and to widen Seventh street on its easterly side between B street northwest and the northerl * line of West Capitol street, as shown on the cit maps, as follows: Por a distance of one hundred and thirty feet soutll, from the southerly line of said B street northwest, when widened as herein authorized, to a width of two hundred and twenty feet, and for the residue of the distance to the northerliy line of West Capitol street to a width not exceeding one hundred an thirty feet. GAREIELD PARK. U" °fJ’°'“ °f G"' Sec. 8. That in consideration of and in connection with the changes ld Par- authorized. ne and improvements to be made in the said railroad by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, in conformity with the requirements of this Act, the said railroad company shall have and be (possessed of the right and privilege, which are hereby expressly grante and conferred, to occupy and use, for tracks and other corporate purlposes, all that portion of reservation seventeen, now known as Garhe d Park, which ies to the southward of its main tracks when located as authorized by this Act, as well as that portion thereof which shall be occupied by said main tracks as located on said plans and profiles; and also the like right and privilege to occupy and use, for similar purposes, the parts or portions of the several streets and crossings which are by this Act vacated and abandoned. DIVISION or cosrs. ,¤£j1_‘Qg{geg{S_°°¤° °* Sec. 9. That the entire cost and expenses of the revision, changes, relocations, and improvements of and in said railroad, as authorized and required bv the preceding sections of this Act, and of all structures connected therewith or incidental thereto, shall be borne, paid, and defrayed in manner following; to wit: The said Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company shall ear, pav, and defray all cost and expense of the relocations, elevation, and depression of its tracks within the limits of its right of way as are authorized and required by this Act, including the construction of so much of the bridges convey- ing streets over its tracks, right of way, and other property as shall be within the limits thereof, and the reconstruction within such limits of the streets which shall be carried beneath the same, the cost and expense of removing its tracks from Sixth street north of Virginia avenue, and from street and Canal street, and the restoration of such parts of said streets for the fuses of the public, and the cost and expense of constructing and maintaining the arch .or arches for passageways underneath its said tracks located on the Mall, as well as the