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Volume 49

Public Law 74–92

To authorize the Secretary of War to grant rights-of-way to the Arlington and Fairfax Railway Company across the Fort Myer Reservation, Virginia.

Approved February 28, 1936

Statutory text

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of War to grant rights-of-way to the Arlington and Fairfax Railway Company across the Fort Myer Reservation, Virginia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary

Fort Myer Reservation, Va.

Rights-of-way across, granted to Arlington and Fairfax Railway Co.

of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to grant to the Arlington and Fairfax Railway Company, a corporation, organized and existing under the laws of the State of Virginia, its successors and assigns, under such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Secretary of War, rights-of-way over and across the Fort Myer Reservation, for railway purposes, with full power to locate, construct, and operate railway tracks, structures, trolley lines, signal devices, and other railway appurtenances and adjuncts, the width of such rights-of-way to be determined by the Secretary of War; provided that the land shall

Condition.

not be used for other than railway purposes and when the property shall cease to be so used it shall revert to the United States.

Approved, February 28, 1936.

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