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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 378. 1910. 615 extension, ten thousand dollars; paving and grading, ten thousand gogars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, one hundred and five thousand 0 ars. . N Avr-YARD, NEW Yonx, NEW Yonx: Dry dock numbered four NW Y°'k‘N‘Y‘ (limit of cost is hereby increased to two million five hundred thousand dollars), to continue, five hundred thousand dollars; improvement of water front, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; to complete cement shed, one thousand dollars; in all, na —yard, New York, glow York, seven hundred and sixteen thousandldbllars. _ _ NAVY-YArzn,PHrLAnnLrr11A, PnNNsYLvANrA:Dredging, to complete, Ph"“°““"““· P"‘ two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Philadelphia, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. _ avr-YARD, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT or Connmnmz Dredging, ten W“““‘“g‘°“·D·°· thousand dollars. _ _ _ The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to ,,,§‘§,‘}§§,’§‘,‘§ S'°‘“g "°. enter into an agreement with the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washingtonlllailroad Company, for the construction, maintenance and operation, by and at the sole expense of said company,. of a sufficient and satisfacto track connection, with such turn-outs and sidings as may be deemdd necessary or convenient, to be established and 0 er- L u ated from a point on the main running tracks of said Philadelpliia, °°° °°‘ Baltimore and Washin ton Railroad Company at or in the general vicinity of s uare south of square one thousand and eighty in the District of Ccdumbia and extending generally along the water front of the Anacostia River at such distance north of the resent north bulkhead line of said river as the Commissioners of the Igistrict of Columbia may indicate and approve, to a connection with the track system of the United States navy-yard, at or in the vicinity of the east line of Ninth street, southeast, as said .system is now or may be hereafter Prom established: Provided, That such track connection, so far as the same aigmigi way. may (project or extend beyond the right of way or property now · ` owne or occupied by said railroad company, s all be constructed wholly upon a suitab e and satisfactory right of way to be provided Tmc for such purposes by the United States, the title to which shall at all Lmkm mr b_ times remain in the United States: Provided further, That, so far as ue gmunamrc. pu may be consistent with the public interests, said track connection wit its appurtenant turn-outs and sidings shall be located and constructed in, upon, over and through public grounds, space and streets of the United States, as the same are now, or may be ereafter, ascertained and established. ~ Upon the execution of the agreement above provided for, the Sec- dJQ’,{‘,§{‘§,°§.,;"{,g§{’§} retary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to acquire any WM'- part of the land or property necessary for yardage or right o way, by piuchase or condemnation, and to construct t ie connections, sidetracks, turn-outs and switches necessarily to the proper operation of the yard system in connection with said branch track, and for such ’*¥’¥"°¥""““°“· purpose the sum of one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any trpgney in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropria. The work of constructing the track connection between the points ,,}3f"° °' °°“’“"°' above specified shall be begun by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company within two months after the right of way necessary therefor shall have been acquired and provided, and the track connection shall be completed and put in operation Within fifteen months from the  of its construction, provided that ‘ said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company shall not be required to expend in the construction of said track con- ““**°’°’F°°’°· nection any sum in excess of ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars, beiug the present estimated cost of such construction.