268 SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 280, 281. 1912. visions of law and made valuable improvements thereon shall have a preference right to enter the lands so clauned and improved at any time within three months after the date on which such lands become ,,}'g?,§,§‘°;*,{,°“”°‘°“" subject to entry; but such right shall forfeit unless the settler or ` claimant under the provisions of the enlarged homestead Acts shall annually cultivate and improve the lands in the form manner and to the extent therein required following date of initiation of his claim hereunder. Approved, August 9. 1912. Augnviiirlim CHAP. 28_1.—An Act To permit the construction of a subway and the mainte-
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Be it enacted by the Senate and Hmrszg Re esentatives of the United §$§,Z,‘,§"‘,‘f“{; 0, States of America in Oongresé asaemb , Tlzigt the Secretary of the
- •}s{jy;,é¤;¤;§·dy_?‘é¤* Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, in the
' name and on behalf of the United States of America, to rant, convey, and release unto the city of New York, in the State of gliew York, for such consideration, nominal or_ otherwise,. and upon such terms, conditions, provisos, and limitations, if an , as he shall deem proper, such temporary rights and easements ang such permanent and perpetual underground rights, easements, tiights of way in, under, through, and across the progrty of the Um States situated m the _ Borough of Manhattan in e city of New York, m the county and °“°'*’“°“· State of New York, and compris` the block bounded by Broadway, Park Row, and Mail Street andm comtparising part of Mail Street, as he shall deem necessary or proper for construction and_for the maintenance and operation in tuity of a two-track underground rapid-transit railroad running under, through, and across said property from Park Place to Beekman Street in said Borough of Manhattan, and also, if he shall deem proper, for the construction and for the maintenance and operation in perpetuity of a one-track spur or connection running un er, through, and across said propert from a point under Mail Street where a connection can be made the existing City Hall loop of the so-called Manhattan—Bronx Rapid Transit Railroad to a point under Beekman Street where a connection can be made ¤¤¤¤¢r¤¢¤¤¤- with the said two-track rapid-transit raih·oad abpve mentioned. The tracks of said rapid-transit railroad and of said spur or connection within the limits of said property shall be placed in subway or tunnel. The tracks of said two-trac rapid—transit railroad within the limits of said property may either be placed in the same subwa or tunnel or there mai be a separate subway or tunnel for each track. In case the tracks all be p aced in the same subway or tunnel, such subway or tunnel may have a width of not exceeding forty feet, outside dimensions; and in case there shall be a se arate subway or tunnel for each track, such subways or tunnels shall be substantially parallel with each other and on substantially the same level, and each of said subways or tunnels may have a width of not exceeding twenty-five feet, outside dimensions, and such subways or tunnels may be placed not more than twenty feet distant from each other. The top of the roof of such subways or tunnels of said two—track ra id—transit railroad within the limits of said property shall be not less ilian thirty-five feet below the present established grade of the surface of the street at the mtexsection of the center line of Broadway with the center line of Park Place extended. The subwa or tunnel for the said one—track spur or connection above the limits of said property may have a width of not exceeding twen -five feet, outside dimensions, and the top of the roof thereof shallz not less than fifteen feet
