Section 8
SEC. 8. The grantee shall acquire for the construction of the railroad a strip of land thirty meters in width, except in such places where greater width is required for stations, buildings, embankments, cuts and borrow pits, quarries, and such additional lands as may be required for diversions of water, roads or highways, drainage of swamp lands, dikes and other works to protect the tracks from floods and freshets, as well as for yards, shops, wharves, platforms, storehouses, turn-outs, switches, or for any other purposes useful and proper to the railroad. In the wise when lands necessary for the proper construction of the line cannot be obtained by free arrangement with the owners, the grantee shall have the right to expropriate same in the manner established by law.