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858 SIXTY·FOUR'I`H CONGRESS. Sess. 11. o¤.4. 1916. ~ or reserved for use by the United States in the city of Saint Louis, State of Missouri, be` the land constitut' the United States Arsenal Grounds, on lvlihich the Saint Loiiisulgisenal was located, which said ht of way is being used by the Saint Louis, Iron Mountain aiild Southern Railway Company as lawful successor to and of said Saint Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Com any for and in maintaining and 0 erating thereon various railioad tracks, wgth onp of wlhich tlrlacgs it sepves (tihg Unit?) Stapxeslis Eni ginee1·’s epot ocate on t at art o said aint uis ena roperty, which lies east of said) right-of-wa stri ; and V°“”·"‘°°" Whereasf téie United StatesedofA1oerica, heretl¢§lore by jointil resdolpi tion 0 ongress, a rov ri twenty-e' t , nineteen un and four, authorizedlthe Secregary of Wgr ti? and he did thereupon, bio grant dated August third, nineteen hundred and four, grant or a ow to the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association a right of way for railroad purposes forty feet in width, over and across said United States Arsenal Grounds in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, said right of way lying west of and abutting the said right of way above referred to as that granted to the Saint Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company, upon which forty-foot stri there have been built certain railroad tracks now operated by the Manufacturers? Railway Com any under lease or permit from said Anheuser-Busch Brewing Xssociation; and Whereas said Anheuser·Busch Brewin Association is not engaged in the railroad business, but is served as a shipper and receiver of freight by said Manufacturers’ Railway Company, which is a railroa corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, and engaged as a common carrier in the transportation of freight moving m mterstate commerce, on behalf of many others of the shigrging public in_tl;e city og Saint Louis, as well as on behalf of . sai rewing associa 1on; an Whereas said Anheuser-Busch Bre Association, Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway llompany, and Manufacturers Railway Company, for the puiipose of improving the track and traffic acihties used by each o said railways in its service of the public, have_ mutually agreed to sell and exchange certain strips of land or rights of way now used by said railways for railroad purposes, an to that end now desire the consent of the United tates_of America to the transfer of certain portions of each of

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war ¤¤ · _ _ _ c ers a way mpany, 1 successors or assigns, all of the said title, rights, and easement heretofore anted vm 33 592 or permitted to said Anheuser—Busch Brewing Association?Tby or ‘ "" ‘ pursuantto said ljlomt resolution of Co ess approved A ril twenty- $$hth, nineteen undred and four, aniigli ant of the Secretary of Sag, daped Apggust third, nineteen htmdiicglr and four, pursuant to y join resou ion. _ _ _ é,,g1C0,,:r‘P,!,1y,,}8§,**g§_ R Slnc. 2bO That permission is hereby granted to said Manufacturers’ _mhz§a;¤gLmgS Egg a way mpany, its successors or assigns, thereupon to transfer to gmigmawomsgp. the Saint L0l1lS,_ rontgfopntam png Soughern Railway Company, its · successors orass s, a parto thesai title, rights and easements so to be acquireldnby said Manufacturers’ Railw; Com an under ge last preceding paragraph hereof, which part rdlates tid oi? affects e eastern eleven and_one~half feet of the said fort —foot right-ofwag strip, thereby éogmugosaid eleven and one-half fleet to the said ré•g¤s;po;1v;ay of said amt uis, Iron Mountam and Southern Railway