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 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 855, 856. 1903. 909 to the city of Buffalo, Wyoming, for lots seven and eight, section three, township fifty north, range eighty-two west of the sixth rinci- El meridian, embraced within the abandoned Fort McKinney Military servation, upon the payment by the authorities of said town of the appraised price of said ots. Approved, February 27, 1903. ‘ CHAP. 856.r-An Act To provide for a union railroad station in the District of February2S, 1903. Columbia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Hmwlz¢(?`R esentativee of the United _ ,States of AmemIea in Umigees assemb, Tm the Philadelphia, Bal- ’{’},§§§j*$j§$g§§Q{:; timore and Washington ilroad Company, (a corporation duly cre- tiggkim I _ _ ated by consolidation and merger of the Philadelphia, l/Vilmington memeutiitiiiiiiiliiéidit and Baltimore Railroad Company and the Baltimore and Potomac “'}§{,‘§_Z“‘}g,§{nn, and Railroad Company, their respective capital stocks, railroads, prop- {Eck privileges mmerties and franchises) or the terminal company provided for in section w' ten of the Act of Congress approved ebruary twelfth, nineteen Vol-31. 1>- 775- hundred and one, entitl "An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings of railroads in the District of Columbia, to require and authorize the construction of new terminals and tracks for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in the city of Washington and for other purposes," be, and each of them is hereby, authorized ¥·¤<>¤¤i<>¤ ¤f tucksand required to locate, construct, maintain, and operate a double—track railroad, commencing at a point on the railroad of said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company at or near the crossing of Second street southwest, at the elevation of said railroad rovide V¤l· $1- P- 76% for in the said Act of Congress relating to the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one; thence curving toward the north, crossing over Virginia avenue with a clearance of fifteen feet above the present curb thereof, crossing over First street southwest and Delaware avenue southwest, at a point about forty feet north of the north house line of E street, with a clearance of not less than sixteen feet; thence curving to the northward, crossinlg over Canal street and South Capitol street with a clearance of not ess than fourteen feet above the curbs thereof; thence passing under the intersection of D street with New Jersey avenue, C street southeast, and B street southeast at the intersection with First street; thence continuing under the west side of First street to near E street northeast; thence curving to the eastward, crossing! under the proposed circle at Massachusetts avenue to a connection wit the tracks in the proposed terminal station to be built on the north side of Massachusetts avenue hereinafter provided for; thence running from the said north line of Massachusetts avenue on the terminal station structure hereinafter mentioned northeastwardly to Delaware avenue; thence, still on said terminal structure, and on the eastermnost part of the viaduct, hereinafter mentioned to be located in Delaware avenue, to the north side of M street northeast; thence northwardly still on Delaware avenue, crossing Florida avenue overhead, by means of a girder bridge, or by masonry arches, to the north side of said avenue; thence by a line, still northwardly, curving to the east, and crossing -under New York avenue, by the most practicable route, in a general northeasterly direction, to a point on the north line of Montana avenue, as projected, and shown oqfplan filed as required by this Act, from which terminal point the Phil eliphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, its successors an assigns, shall be. and is hereby, authorized _ to locate, construct, maintain, and operate a line of railroad, of two or c0§]‘:gc'“df);f ¤“*¤°¤ more tracks, by the mosgpracticablc route. to a point of connection with its present railroad near agruder Station, in the State of Maryland, and