Mr. WELKER, from the ComDistCol, reported back, with a substitute, House bill No. 230, to amend an act to extend the charter of the Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad Company, passed March 3, 1863. The substitute was read. The 1st section provides that the Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown Railroad Company, a corporation lawfully succeeding to the charter, rights, and privileges of the Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad Company, shall be authorized to extend said railroad from the truck as now laid, oras the same may hereafter be laid, through Maryland avenue, at the intersection of 6th street west, through and along 6th to a point at the intersection of Pennsylvania avenue, which may be suitable for a depot for passengers and t'reight. The seconsection provides that the company shall be authorized to extend their rail roa from the‘track as the same is now or may hereafter be laid through Maryland avenue at the intersection with Virginia avenuc, through and along said Virginia avenue in an easterly direction, to the interScction of D street south, and thence along D street and along Washington canal to NewJersey avenue; thence by a curve of not less than1,000 feet radius to a point in square No. 732; thence by a tun nel to a point in square No. 893; thence by a curve into 8 street east, and thence by the most direct and eligible route to the intersection of the Washington branch of the Bal timore and Ohio railroad. The 3rd section provides that the provisions of section 3 of the act to which this is an amendment shall bea plicable to the extension of said road or track hereby authorized, and it shall be lawful for said company to constructa bridge and draw across the ashington canal, of such plans and dimensions as may be approved by the corporation of Washington, and so as not to interfere with the navigation of said canal, and also to use steam power for the transpor tation of passengers and freight over said branches, subject to such restrictions as may be imposed by the corporation of Washington, in respect to the portions within the city limits. The 4th section provides that the railroad company shall be required to pay all dam age resulting to private property, and in the event of the company and the owner or owners of such private property failing to agree upon the amount of damages and the value of the private property appropriated, such proceedings shall thereupon be had for the assessment of damages as are authorized and required by the laws now in force in the DistCol regulating the assessment of damages for opening streets, roads, and alleys in the District; and upon the payment or tender to the owners of the amountofdama'ges so assessed, the company shall acquire the right to use and occupy all such lands so appropriated as may be necessary for the proper working and running of said road. The 5th section provides that if at any time any other railroad company shall desire to use and occupy the tunnel nut orized by this act, either on the same track or another alongside thereof, the shall have the right to do so, upon such air and reasonable terms as may be agreed upon by said parties to such joint occupancy; and in case the parties cannot agree, the supreme court of to DistCol sha l fix the terms. The 6th section provides that this act shall go into effect.from the time of its passage.