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PUBLIC LAW 376-MAY 28, 1954

Public Law 376 May 28, 1954 [H. R. 6870]

New O r l e a n s, La. P u b l i c Health Service hospitaU

Moving of line of levee.

E x t e n s i o n of street through hospital property.

L i m i t a t ions on use.

Public B e l t R a i l r o a d Commission rail facilities.

STAT.

CHAPTER 244 AN ACT

To amend the Act of February 13, 1900 (31 Stat. 28), by approving existing railway installations and authorizing further railway installations on the batture in front of the Public Health Service hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act of Congress approved February 13, 1900 (31 Stat. 28), granting permission and authority to the Orleans levee board to move, without cost to the United States, the existing line of levee in front of the Public Health Service hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana, and for other purposes, be amended so as to read as follows: "SECTION 1. (a) That permission and authority be, and they are hereby, granted to the Orleans levee board to move, without cost to the United States, the existing line of levee in front of the United States Public Health Service hospital property in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the square bounded by State Street, Henry Clay Avenue, Tchoupitoulas Street, and the Mississippi River; said line of levee to be moved outwardly in the direction of said river to the new line of levee established by the said Orleans levee board, and that the city of New Orleans be, and it is hereby, authorized to extend, lay out, open, and to keep open, through the said Public Health Service hospital property, the street known as Leake Avenue (Front Street), one hundred and ten feet wide, extending from Peniston Street to the upper limits of the city of New Orleans, a distance of about five miles, as provided for under ordinance of the city of New Orleans, numbered fifteen thousand and eighty, council series, approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine: Provided, That in case the said city of New Orleans has granted, or shall grant, a right-of-way over said street to any railway company, corporation, firm, or person, or that said street shall be used for railway purposes, such grant, privilege, or use shall be upon condition that no art of said street within the limits of said Public Health Service ospital property (or within one thousand feet from the same) shall be used for depot purposes, or railroad yard, or for the purposes of switching, shifting, or parking cars, or making up or breaking up trains of cars, or for any other purpose than the ordinary transit, without stopping, of railway trains excepting, however, the stopping of cars by reason of the automatic interlocking located at the intersection of the tracks of the Illinois Central Railroad and the Public Belt Railroad (Commission between Jefferson Avenue and Octavia Street when the crossing is occupied by opposing trains: A7id provided further, That the inner line of said Leake Avenue (Front Street) shall not be located at any point nearer than eight feet to the present iron fence enclosing the grounds of said Public Health Service hospital property; and the violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall, as to the person, company, railway company, municipal corporation, or other corporation so violating any of said provisions, cause a revocation of all rights and privileges given or granted by this Act. "(b) The existing railway side tracks and related rail facilities of the Public Belt Railroad Commission, the following described center lines of which are located within the area set forth in paragraph (a) hereof are hereby approved: as shown on Public Belt Railroad Plan No. A-14-57, revised July 6, 1953. "(1) A certain track designated as 'Old Mengel Switch', beginning at a point designated ' E ' approximately fifteen feet riverward from Public Belt river main track, said point ' E ' being one thousand feet in an upstream direction from the northeast corner of Henry Clay Avenue and Leake Avenue; thence by a line bearing approximately south forty-

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Location of inner line, e t c.

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