Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-08-07

made such actual settlement and improvement as would
have entitled him TO right Of presumption under the t
Of September fourth eighteen hundred and INT
for his failure TO give the requisite notice under that
or to e proof within due tme any tract Of land NM
owned by the United States and situated within the ;s
reserved from sale by order Of the Government becs
Of the grant Of alternate sections the States of Illinois
Mississippi and Alabama in aid of the construction ~
the Chicago and Mobile railroad and branches by virtue
OF an act OF Congress approved September twentieth
eighteen hundred and fifty entitled Gan act granting ia
right Of way and making grant of land to the States Of
Illinois, Mississippi and Alabama, lii aid Of the consruc-
ton OF railroad from Chicago to Mobile shall have the
right to purchase, at the price established by law in re-
guang the sales Of said lands quantity of the tract SO
settled on and improved less than forty nor more than
one hundred and sixty acres, in legal subdivisions
which said improvements may be situated: PROVIDED That
any person claiming the right purchase under this act
Shall before the actual offering of the public SALE
ME with the Register OF the proper land Office notice
describing the land by its numbers and make the
sary proof affidavit and payment for the land within
twelve months from the date of this net And provided
further That the right Of way upon and across any tract
Of land claimed under the provisions Of this act not ex
ceedng two hundred feet in width shall be reserved and
retained for the said railroad and branches as the same
may be located and constructed.
Approved, August 2, 1852.
TPUBL1c AcT-No 401
AN ACT to amend entitled An act to incorporate
the Washington Gas Light Company" approved July
eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.
Be- enacted By the Senate and House of Representatives
q the United States Of 4meea in Congress assembled That
the act entitled San act to incorporate the Washington
Gas Light Company" approved July eighth, eighteen
hundred and forty eight be and the same is hereby
amended by inserting in the second section Immediately
before the word fifty the words three hundr6d and
and in the seventh section wherever the word Wash
ngton occurs by inserting Immediately thereafter the
words g and Georgetoan"
Approved, August 2, 1852.
PUBLIC AcT-No Al. taf
AN ACT to grant the right of way to all rail and plank
roads and macadamzed turnpikes passing through the
public land belonging to the United States.
BE enacted By the Senate and House of Representatives
Of the United States of America Congress assembled That
the right of way shall be and is hereby granted all
rail and plank road macadamized turnpike companies
that that may be chartered within years here
after and through any of the public lands of the
United States, oyer which any rail plank road mac
adamized turnpkes are may be authorized by act
OF the Legislature Of the respective States in which pub
lie lands may be situated and the said company
panies hereby authorized survey mark through
the said public lands to be held by them for the track of
said road, one hundred feet in width Provided That in
case where deep excavation heavy embankment is
qured for the grade of such road then at such places
greater width may be taken by such company if
ry, not exceeding in the whole two hundred feet
Sec And BEL further enacted That the said company
companies shall have the right take from the public
lands in the vicinity of said road roads, all such
terials of EARTH stone wood may be necessary
convenient from time time for the first construction Of
sad road or roads, or any part thereof through said
land.
Sec. 8. And be further enacted That there shall be
and hereby granted to said company companies all
necessary sites for watering places depots and workshops
along the line of said road roads, far the places
convenient for the may fall upon the public lands
Provided That depot watering place shall
tain square acre. and that said sites shall not
be nearer to each other than ten miles along the line or
lines Of said road roads Provided, further, That the
said grants herein contained well of the of the pub
lie lands of the materials for the construction of said
road orroads shall and determine unless the
roads be begun within years from and after the passage
of this act and completed within fifteen years thereafter
And proUded moreover, That if any road any time after
its completion be discontinued abandoned by said
pany companies the grants hereby made shall
and determine and said lands hereby granted back
to the General Government: Propded further That when
location for either of said railroads or plank roads,
turnpikes sites for depos the line of
such road roads, shall be selected the proper officers of
such road roads shall transmit the Commissioner Of
the General Land Office correct plat of the survey said
road roads, together with the survey Of sites depots
before such selection shall become operative Provsded
further That Of the foregoing provisions of this
shall apply to authorize any rights in any lands of the
United States other than such held for private
and SALE and such unsurveyed and held for
public use by erection or improvements thereon.
Sec 4. And be further enacted That the right Of way
through the public lands of the United States lying in
Black Rock in the county of Erie and State of New York.
be and the is hereby granted the Lockport and
Buffalo Railroad Company Provided That in the opinion
of the President Of the United States such grant be
be approved by the President the position and width
Of the said railroad; And prorid further, That if the
said railroad shall not be completed within years,
II at any time after its completion the said railroad be
discontinued abandoned the grant shall and de-
termine. [Approved, August 4, 1852.