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 824- SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 277. 1922. G,;§f,,,‘§,_N°" Y"' "Number 1, middle belt line: Connects New Jersey and Staten Island and the railroads on the westerly side of the port with Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and the railroads on the easterly side of the port. Connects with the New York Central Railroad in The Bronx; with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in The Bronx; with the Lo Island Railroad in Queens and Brooklyn; with the Baltimore anl¥Ohio Railroad near Elizabethport and in Staten Island; with the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey at Elizabethport and at oints in Newark and Jersey Cig; with the Pennsylvania Railroad) in Newark and Jersey City; wi the Lehigh Valley Railroad in Newark and Jerse City; with the Delaware, Lackawa.nna and Western Railroad in Jersey City and the Secaucus meadows; with the Erie Railroad in Jersey City and the Secaucus meadows; with the New York, Susquehanna and Western, the New York, Ontario and Western, and the West Shore Railroads on the westerly side of the Palisades above the Weehawken 'l‘unnel. "The route of the middle belt line, as shown on said ma, is in eneral as follows: Commencing at the Hudson River at Slpuyten Duyvil, easterly and southerly generally along the easterly side of the Harlem River,  existing lines so far as practicable and impro and addxgg where necessary, to a connection with Hell Gate Bziiiée and the ew Haven Railroad, a distance of approximately seven miles; thence continuing in a general southerly direction, utilizing existinlg lines and improving and adding where necess , to a point near ay Ridge, a distance of approximatel§_eiihteen aii1d7 one-half miles; thence by a new tunnel under New or Bay in a northwesterly direction to a portal in Jersey City or Bayonne, a distance of sipproximately five miles, to a connection with the tracks of the ennsylvania and Lehigh Valley Railroads; thence in a generally northerly direction along the easterly side of Newark Ba and the Hackensack River at the westerly foot of the Palisades, utilizing existing tracks and im roving and adding where necessary, making connections with the Jgrsgy entral, Pennsglvania, Lehigh Valley, Delaware, Lackawanna an Western, Erie, ew York, Susuehanna. and Western, New York, Ontario and Western, and West Shore Railroads, a distance of approximately ten miles. From the westerlykportal of the Bay Tunne and from the line alon the easterly side of ewark Bay biy the bridges of the Central Raiioad of New Jersey (crossing the Iackensac * and Passaic Rivers) and of the Pennsylvania and Lehivh Valley Railroads (crossing Newark Ba ) to the line of the Centrdl Railroad of New Jersey, running along tlie westerly side of Newark Ba and thence southerl along this line to a connection with the Braltimore and Ohio Igailroad south of Elizabethport, utilizing existing lines so far as practicable and improving and adding where necessary a distance o approximately twelve miles; thence in an easterly direction crossing the Arthur Kill, utilizing existing lines so far as practicable and improving and adding where necessary, along the northerly and easter shores of Staten Island to the new city piers and to a connection, the city of New York consents thereto, with the tnmnel imder the Narrows to Brooléyn provided for under chapter 700 of the laws of the State of New ork for 1921. " Number 2: A marginal railroad to The Bronx extending alo the shore of the East iver and Westchester Creek, connecting the middle belt line (number 1) and with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the vicinity of Westchester. _ "Number 3: A marginal railroad in Queens and Brooklyn extending along Flushmv Creek, Flushing Ba, the East River, and the upper New York Bay. Connects with the middle belt line (number 1 y lines number 4, number 5, number 6, and directly at the south-