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FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 1303, 1304. 1905. 823 CEA?. 1303.5An Act To amend an Act to provide for eliminating certain grade Mn0h Z 1905- crossingls on the line_of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company. in the city ~ iS' uw`] of Was mgton, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and ele- [Public, No. 1%.] vate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one. . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of R eaentatioea of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Tegit section twelve of the ,m‘§,;';’;*‘*’{p{,*,‘{“·,g,*,§,§; ‘ “Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of Vernon Rwwnyvcmthe Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company, in the City of Wash- °°·ii’m., gm- complet. ingtou, District of Columbia, and requiring sa1d Company to de ress §g'*‘“§‘;'g’g;§g,§é°§ and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its raiiioad vdls m. p. 773; therein, and for other purposes,” a proved February twelfth, nineteen '""°"°°d hundred and one, requiring the Vyashington, Alexandria and Mount Vemon Railway Company, in case it made use of the highway bridge across the Potomac River, in said Act provided for, to install a standard underground electric system of street—car propulsion on the park highway leading to said bridge, and that no dynamo furnishing power to such portion of its road should be in any manner connected with the ground, is hereby amended so as to permit said company to operate its cars, from the present terminus of its underground electric system at Fourteenth street and Maryland avenue sont west to the north end of said new highway bridige, by a standard overhead trolley system ‘ such as is now used by said company from said terminus of its underground electric system as above, to the north end of the present Long ‘ ridge; the privilege hereby extended to said company, however, to u('fl_¤¤¤ <>* •=°¤¤*¤¤¤· o expire at the end of fourteen months from the time said new hi hway bud shall be qpened for trailic, or such additional time therealter as m§;°;°,:¥·d*j{,u,,'f,$ the gentes? o War, who is hereby authorized to grant additional um. extensions time, may deem that the new till made or the approach to the new highway bridge has become sufficiently settled to permit of the proper an safe construction and installation of a standard underground electric system; at the expiration of all of which times, however, the requirements of said section twelve, above referred to, shall become operative, and the said company shall be compelled to comply therewith as therein provided. Approved, March 2, 1905. CHAP. 1804.-An Act To amend section thirteen of chapiter three hundred and MTg°’},¥;,l?°i’· ninety-four of the supplement to the Revised Statutes of the nited States. ...f Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirteen of chap- mmldnpim. H ter three hundred and ninety-four of the supplement to the Revised mE€§’§Y ” °” m' Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: That &¤Y;;M’§· P- 1*7- any person who shall submit or cause to be submitted to any postmaster d renmy sowpmieor to the Post-Oiiice Department or any officer of the postal service .,,Tesl·¤i:Q; any iii': any false evidence, relative to any publication for the purpose of secur— li<=¤¤°¤· ing the admission thereof at the second—class rate for transportation in the mails. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such otfense. u n conviction thereof, shall be punished by a tine of not less than one hliindred nor more than five hundred dollars. Approved, March 2, 1905.