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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. uns. 640, 641. 1898. 725 said District of a notice, served in like manner as notices in regard to assessment and permit work are required by law to be served, directing the owner, agent, or other person or persons owning or controlling the land, structure, or other property upon which such fence or barrier exists to remove the same. · Sec. 4. That any person violating any of the provisions of this Act *‘°¤¤*J‘- shall, upon· conviction thereof in the police court of said District, be iineld not more than ten A dollars· for each day such violation shall con mue. SEO. 5. That in case the owner, agent, or other person or persons in t,,}fl°'·*°° by P¤l>¤¤•~ control of the property along which such fence, barrier, or obstruction ` unlawfully exists can not be found within live days after the issue of such notice, the Commissioners shall publish such notice twice a week for two successive weeks in one daily newspaper of general circulation published in the District of Columbia. If within five days after the 0 Bg=¤,gm_jjbyi¤¤v•¤# last publication of said notice the fence, barrier, or obstruction therein r ° ""' described be not removed, the inspector of buildings of said District . shall immediately cause such fence, barrier, or obstruction to be removed, and the expense of such removal shall be paid out of the assessment and permit fund; and the cost of such removal, together —c·>•¤. with the cost of said advertising, shall be assessed against said property and collected as general taxes. in said District are assessed and collected; and the funds from which said payments are made shall be reimbursed from such collections. Approved, July 8, 1898. CHAP. 1.-Ln Act To incomorate the Washin n and nlversi Railroad **15*8- 1898- Company 1:4 the Ihntrict of Colum ia. gw U ty -"""" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That J. D. Croissant, Frederick bh¤i·*¤'i·=* ¤f 0<>¤¤r¤· C. Kennedy, A. 0. Humphrey, David D. Stone, John J. Flynn, V. K. iimqmsuou of Nash, and Charles S. Lord, and their associates, successors, and assigns, Xj;§;”§{jg{*r;:g Umare hereby created a body corporate under the name of the Washing- corpomms ` ton and University Railroad Company of the District of Columbia. ,,;§,f"°“‘*°‘· P°"· P- ROUTE. Rollin. Sec. 2. That the company is authorized to construct and operate a street railway for carrying passengers along the following-named route: Beginning at or near the intersection of the Tennallytown road and Quincy street; thence westerly on Quincy street to Forty-fourth street; thence northerly on Forty-fourth street to Vallejo street; thence westerly on Vallejo street to Forty-seventh street; thence northerly on Forty-seventh street to Flint street; thence west on Flint street to Boundary avenue; thence southerly on Boundary avenue to Forty- eighth street; thence southerly on Forty-eighth street to Brandywine street; thence easterly on Brandywine street to Fortyseventh street, as shown upon the plans of the third section of highway extensions: Provided, That where this route lies within the lines of a proposed rma..._ _ highway the company shall acquire a right of Way not less than thirty ,,§5’,;‘;§‘;’P’§,§'d‘},‘fgf,{ feet wide in the center thereot and all rights of way acquired within warsthe lines of proposed highways shall be dedicated to the use of the public before a permit is issued for the construction of a railroad therein. MOTIVE POWER. Motive power. Sec. 3. That the motive power shall be electricity, and if the trolley system is used a return wire of equal capacity to the feed wire, and similarly insulated, must be provided, and each car shall be equipped with a double trolley. No portion of the electrical circuit shall, under any circumstances, be allowed to pass through the earth, and neither pole of any dynamo furnishing power to the line shall be grounded.