Volume 10
Private Law 32–CXLI
to Incorporate the Georgetown and Catoctin Railroad Company.
Approved March 3, 1853
Statutory text
An Act
to Incorporate the Georgetown and Catoctin Railroad Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That whenever the State of
Right of way granted.
Maryland shall by law incorporate a company to lay out and construct a railroad, from any point, in connection with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at or near the Point of Rocks, to Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, the right of way, not exceeding sixty-six feet wide, be and is
Provisos.
hereby granted to such company: Provided, That before any such road, depots, and its necessary fixtures shall be located in Georgetown, the assent of said city shall first be obtained: And provided, also, That the same provisions for the condemnation of, and payment for, land, or other, private property for the use of the said road, as may be made by any act for the incorporation of such company by the State of Maryland shall be and hereby are extended to the condemnation of and payment for land or other private property for the use of the said road within the District of Columbia.
Approved, .