CHAP. 95.—An ACT to approve and ratify a charter of incorpo-
ration granted by the congress of the United States, approved
February 28, 1891, entitled an act to incorporate the Washing-
ton and Arlington railway company of the District of Colum-
bia, so far as it relates to its proposed railway line within the
limits of the state of Virginia.

Approved January 26, 1892.

Whereas the congress of the United States passed an
act which was approved on the twenty-eighth day of Feb-
ruary, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “an act
to incorporate the Washington and Arlington railway com-
pany of the District of Columbia,” with authority to con-
tract and lay down a single or double track railway, with
necessary switches, turnouts, and other mechanical devices
for operating the same by horse, cable, compressed air, or
other power, to be approved by the commissioners of the
District of Columbia, or electric power, for carrying pas-
sengers, parcels, milk, and truck by a route designated and
set forth in said charter. This route begins on Sixth
street, near B street, northwest, and runs through certain
portions of the city of Washington to a point on the Po-

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tomac river, at or near the point known as the “ Three
Sisters,” where the said company is authorized to construct
and maintain a bridge across the Potomac river, on such
plans as the secretary of war may approve, “and from
thence by, on, and over such lines as may be selected by
the said company, with the approval of the secretary of
war, to the northwest entrance of the Arlington cemetery,
and thence through the Arlihgton estate, outside of the
cemetery grounds, to the south or west line thereof, in the
state of Virginia,” with certain provisos in said charter
of incorporation set forth, and among them this proviso:
“That so much of said line as may be within the state of
Virginia shall first receive the approval of the proper au-
thorities of said state”; now,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That so much of the said proposed line, contemplated by
the said Washington and Arlington railway company un-
der said act of congress, as may lie within the state of
Virginia be, and the same is hereby, approved and rati-
fied, with the same rights and privileges and powers in
regard to it as may be applicable, as is expressly granted
to said company by said act of congress in regard to that
portion of said railway line as may lie within the District
of Columbia and the United States reservation, known as
Fort Meyer, and such other lands of the United States in
the state of Virginia.

2. And it shall be lawful for said Washington and Ar-
lington railway compary to consolidate with, or to lease,
in whole or in part, or to purchase, the works, property,
franchises, and privileges of any other railway or railroad
company, or railway and improvement company, hereto-
fore incorporated, or which may be hereafter incorporated,
under the laws of the state of Virginia, upon such terms
as may be agreed upon between them. And power is given
to such other company or companies in like manner to
make and carry out such contract or contracts of sale or
lease.

3. And it shall be lawful for said company to acquire
by gift or grant or purchase, such real estate as may be
necessary for its corporate purposes, and to hold, sell,
mortgage, lease, or otherwise dispose of the same; to con-
nect its railway with the rails, road-beds, of any other
railway or railroad company, aid to acquire by condemna-
tion, according to the laws of the state of Virginia, the
lands required for the right of way of its railway, and the
necessary stations and depots for its operation; and to
exercise all the powers imposed by the laws of the state of
Virginia upon such corporations, and likewise to be sub-
ject to all the penalties and limitations imposed by said
laws; and all taxes, dues, or demands from said company
to the state of Virginia shall be paid in lawful money of
the United States.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.