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FORTY-—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 108, 109. 1870. 133 mental fountain. The covered entrances for pedestrians from the avenue ImP'°"°· fnipnt into the market square will also be laid with wood pavement, as mm' a ove. G. Sewer. -—- Through the center of the square, from north to south, an egg-shaped. sewer of brickwork laid in cement will be built, iuto which all the large-sized drain·pipes from the different sections of the whole improvement will discharge in a manner so as to sweep off all the rainwater, waste, and soil, and also to drain efficiently the ground of the whole square. General Conditions. ··—- The specifications and drawings are intended to _G¢¤¤r¤l conco-opemte, so that anything exhibited in the drawings and not mentioned d*°i°°°' in the. specifications, or vice versa, is to be executed the same as if both were mentioned in the specifications, and set forth in the drawings, to the true meaning and spirit of said drawings. All the work to be done under the direction and according to the designs of the architect of the company. It is to be understood that these specilications are intended to include all and everything necessary to the completion of all the improvements in a good, substantial, and workmanlike manner, and modern style, with best, sound materials for each and every part and department, at the c0mp2my’s own cost. Amuzovsn, May 20, 1870. [The drawings referred to in this act are on tile with the original in the Department of State.] CHAP. CIXA —An Act io 1`nc0rporaleg10¢;uC¢£lymbz`a Railway Company of the District of May 24, 1870. HI lll. -_—-Q_`-";' Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Williann Gunton, John C. columbia McKelden, Samuel Fowler, Wm. B. Todd, Wm. H. Clagett, John F. B**il“'?Y C°m· Callan, S. P. Brown, George H. Plant, W. C. Bestor, E. M. Gallaudet, £2%_m°°rp°" R. C. Fox, Matthew G. Emery, Wm. Stickney, Martin M. Rohrer, Richard Sutton, David D. Cone, Robert WVilliams, Wni. P. Copeland, Wm. H. Nalley, G. H. B. White, James T. Pritchard, J. C. Wall, John H. McCutchen, Poulus Thyson, Bernard Hayes, Jacob D. Kitch, and their associates and assigns, be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate, under the name of the Columbia Railway Company, with authority to construct and lay down a single or double track railway, with the necessary switches and turnouts, in the city and county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, through and along the following avenues, streets, and highways: commencing ata point on the eastern side of West Fifteenth Loudon of Street, on New York Avenue, thence eastwardly along said avenue to its trackintersection with North K Street ; thence along North K Street to its intersection with Massachusetts Avenue; thence along Massachusetts Avenue to its intersection with North H Street; and thence along North H Street to its eastern termination with the Columbia turnpike gate; with the right Motive power. to run public carriages thereon drawn by horse-power, receiving therefor a rate of fare not exceeding six cents a passenger for any distance on said fm£:·¤¤°¤S°¤` road. ` Sec. 2. And be iifurther enacted, That should o. majority of ·the stocl<· cx§€°;;*d‘La¤;£Ll%;, holders so elect, at any time within two years after the completion of said &c_ road (provided for in section one above), the said company shall have the right to extend said road, either with a single or double track, with the necessary switches and turnouts, along the line of the Columbia. Turnpike Road Company, with the consent of said Turnpike Road Company, or on any other road or roads leading northwardly or eastwardly from such inter— section at the Columbia turnpike gate, now opened, or which may [hereafter be opened, by the proper authorities; and thence along said road or roads, by the most practicable route or routes, to the termini near, at, or m the