Volume 24
Public Law 49–133
to grant the right of way through the Fort Bliss Military Reservation to the Rio Grande and El Paso Railroad Company.
Approved February 17, 1887
Statutory text
An Act
to grant the right of way through the Fort Bliss Military Reservation to the Rio Grande and El Paso Railroad Company.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is hereby granted to the Rio Grande and El Paso Railroad Company right of way one hundred feet wide, on such route as the Secretary of War may designate, through the Fort Bliss Military Reservation, Texas. If said railway shall not be built across said reservation within three years next after the passage of this act, this grant shall absolutely cease and determine.
Approved, February 17, 1887.