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 774 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 353, 354. 1901. valued for purposes of taxation and taxed on the same basis as any other equal portion of railroad situated within the said District of Columbia not constructed on, in, through, or upon any such bridges, tunnels, elevated tracks, or subway. RIGHTS or sUccEss1oN. Ris1¤¤¤¤f¤¤¤c¤¤¤i¤¤- Sec. 15. That all the provisions of this Act, including all rights, powers, and privileges granted to, or duties imposed upon, said altimore and Potomac Railroad Company, shall accrue to and devolve upon its successors and assigns; and in case the said Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, its capital stock, lproperties, corporate _ rights, powers, privileges, immunities, and franc ises, shall be merged into or consolidated with the Philadel hia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, or any other raiiioad corporation, to which the assent of Congress is hereby given, then and in that event the company which shall, by such merger or consolidation, so acquire the same shal be invested with and possessed of all the rights, owers, property, and Erivileges of said Baltimore and Potomac Railroad) Company within the istrict of Columbia, as well those granted by this Act as those heretofore existing, and shall have and exercise all the necessary rights, powers, an franchises respecting the same as fully as they would ave been ossessed and exercisable by said Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING Acrs. Reveal Sec. 16. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith be, and they are hereby, repealed. · RESERVED memss or OONGRESS. Am¤¤dr¤¢¤t· thSEc. 17. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal is Act. Approved, February 12, 1901. CHAP. 354.-An Act To rovide for eliminatin certain ade crossin of rail- roads in the District of Columbia, to require and a1§horize tig; coustructidgd of new terminals and tracks for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in the city of Washington, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives eftbe United Dismct0fCo1umbm_ States of Ameriea in Congress assembled, That the Baltimore and Ohio Rgahimvm wd 0¤i¤ Railroad Company, and the terminal company incorporated as provided ilroad. . . . . Elimiuationofgrade in this Act, be, and each of them is hereby, empowered and author1zed §,'§§}‘§,$,·w°,‘;}’¤§§,§;}1§; to locate, construct, maintain, and operate new terminals and new lines •¤>¤- of railroad to accommodate the tratlic of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in connection with its Washinlgton Branch Railroad and Metropolitan Branch Railroad within the istrict of Coiumbia mmm Ofmw mb and in the city of Washington, as hereinafter provided. The said mums and tracks. new terminals and terminal tracks shall occupy the streets, avenues, public reservations, and roperty belonging to the United States, and such of the lands ang property belonging to others as may be acquired by either of said companies, situate and lying within the area bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning at the intersection of the south line of H street.north and a line forty feet from the east building line of Delaware avenue and parallel thereto; thence alon said line parallel to the easterly building line of Delaware avenue andg forty feet therefrom to the west line of First street east; thence by said west line of