Volume 21
Public Law 46–41
to grant the right of way for railroad purposes through certain lands of the United States in Richmond County, Now York.
Approved February 9, 1881
Statutory text
An Act
to grant the right of way for railroad purposes through certain lands of the United States in Richmond County, Now York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the right of way, by tunnel, not exceeding thirty feet in width, through the lands of the United States now occupied by the United States Light House Establishment in the village of New
Proviso.
Brighton, county of Richmond, and State of New York, is hereby granted to the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railroad Company for the purpose of constructing a railroad: Provided, That the said right of way, and the width and location thereof through said lands, and the regulations for operating said railroad within the limits of the same, so as to prevent all danger to public property, shall be submitted to and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, prior to any entry upon said lands or the commencement of the construction of said works.
Sec. 2.
That whenever said rights of way shall cease to l*e used for the purposes aforesaid, the same shall revert to the United States; and that the right to repeal, alter, or amend this act is reserved to Congress.
Approved, February 9, 1881.