Public Law 55–497

That hereafter whenever the

District of Columbia.

Street railways.

track or tracks or any part thereof of any street railway company in the District of Columbia shall not have been regularly operated for railway purposes upon a schedule approved by the Commissioners for a period of three mouths, the Commissioners of said District, in their discretion, may thereupon notify such company to remove said unused

—removal of unused tracks.

—penalty.

tracks and to place the street in good condition; and if such company shall neglect or refuse to remove said tracks and place the street in good condition within sixty days after such notice, the directors of said company shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine often dollars for each and every day during which said tracks are permitted to remain upon the street or streets or said roadway shall remain out of repair, which fine shall be recovered in the police court of said District, in the name of said District, as other tines and penal ties are now recovered in said court.

Sec. 2.

That on and after one year from the passage of this Act it

—using tracks of another company, to have same propelling power.

shall be unlawful for any street railway company operating its system or parts of its system over any portion of the underground electric lines FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 497, 499. 1898.owned and operated by another street railway company in the city of Washington to continue such operation or to enter into reciprocal trackage relations with any other company, as provided for under existing law, unless its motive power for the propulsion of its ears shall be the same as that of the company whose tracks are used or to be used.

—penalty.

For every violation of this Act the company violating it shall be subject to a line of ten dollars for every car operated in violation of the pro visions of this Act, said hue to be collected and applied in the same manner as is provided by existing laws in respect of other fines in the District of Columbia.

Sec. 3.

That all street railway companies within the District of Columbia now operating their systems or parts of their systems in the city of Washington by use of the tracks of one or more of such companies, under a reciprocal trackage agreement, as provided for under existing law, which shall be compelled by reason of the passage of this

—to transfer from one system to another.

Act to discontinue the use of the tracks of another company, shall issue free transfers to their patrons from one system to the other at such junctions of their respective lines as may be provided for by the Com missioners of the District of Columbia.

Sec. 4.

That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.