Volume 22
Public Law 47–53
to authorize the Secretary of War to release a right of way across lands of the United States at Plattsburgh, New York.
Approved March 28, 1882
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the Secretary of War to release a right of way across lands of the United States at Plattsburgh, New York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War be authorized and empowered, in his discretion, and on such conditionsand restrictions as he may think necessary to protect the interests of the United States, to release to the Chateaugay Railroad Company, for railroad purposes only, a right of way not exceeding four rods in width over and along the northerly side of the lands of the United States in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York, and extending from the Saranac River to the depot grounds of said company, a distance of about one hundred and thirty rods, or so much thereof as said company may require for said purpose.
Approved, March 28, 1882.