The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-02-12

holding any stated or appointed term of
the DiStric, Court of his district; and
upon the fac, of such sickness or other
disability being notified BY the clclk Of
said District Court TO the assistant
Judges Of Circuit Court of said dis.
trict, il shall be the duty of the senior
Assistant Judge of said court TO hold the
District Court aforesaid, and discharge
all the judicial duties of the District
Judge, who shall be sick or otherwise
disabled as aforesaid, so long as such
sickness or disability shall continue; and
in case of the sickness or other disabil-
ity of said senior Assistant Judge, the
same duty shall devolve on the junior
Assistant Judge of said Circuit Court;
and the said Judges, and each of them,
are hereby authorized to exer,ise origi-
nal jurisdiction in admiralty cases for
the purposes Of this act and all the acts
and proceedings IT, said District Court,
by or before either of said assistant
judges, so required TO hold said District
Court, shall have the same force, effect,
and validity, as if done and transacted
by and before the District Judge of said
District Court.
Sec. .. And be it tNrther enacted,
That the associate judge holding the
District Court as aloresa d shall, and is
hereby empowered tositin the said Cir.
cult Court in any case of appeal or Of
error from his own decision in said Dis.
trict Court, in the same manner as if
said District Court had not been held
by him.
Approved, May 81, 1852.
CHAp. XLV.-An Actgrauting the Right
of Way to the State of Missouri, and
Portion of the Public Lands, to aid
in the Construction of certain Rail
roads in said State
BE ttea0cted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives. of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the right of way through the public lands
be, and the same is hereby granted tc
the state of Missouri, for the constIuc.
) tiOn Of railroads from the town of Han.
nibal 10 the town of St. Joseph, in said
state, and from the city Of St. Louis 10
such point on the western boundary oil
said state as may be designated by the
authority of said state, with the right
also 10 take necessary materials of esrlh,
stone, and timber, for the construction
thereof, from the public lands of the
United States adjacent to said railroads.
Pyo1ded, That in locating the railroads
aforesaid, and assigning the limits to the
: easement, no more land shall be taken
from the United States than is necessa-
ry for convenient construction and use
! of said roads as public ways for trans
Porta'Ion, including stations, with the
, usual buildings of all kinds, turnouts
and such other appurtenances as are
! usually enjoyed by railroad companies
, and copy of the location of said roads
made under the direction of the legisla
tine, shall be forwarded TO the proper
local land. Offices respectively, and Il
the General Land-Oifce at Washington
City, within ninety days after the com.
pleion of the same, to be recorded
! Sec 2. And be IL .tmther enacted
: That there be, and is hereby granted tc
: the state of Missouri, for the purpos,
! of aiding in making the railroads alorc
said, every alternate section of land de-
! signated by even numbers, for six sec
} lions in width on each side of the road
,, but in case it shall appear that the U,i
J ted States have, when the line or roui,
of said roads, or either of them, shal
be definitely fixed bythe authority afore
D said, sold any section or any part there
!, said, or that the right of pre-empliol
4 has attached TO the same, then it shal
be lawful for any agent or agents to b,
: appointed by the Governor Of said state
: to select, subject to the approval of tn
e Secretary Of the interior, from the land
: of the United States most contiguous 4
y the tier Of sections above specified, s
5 much land in alternate sections or part
. of sections as shall be equal to sue
$ lands as the United States have sold, o
y to which the right of pre-emption ha
0 attached as Aforesaid; which lands, thu
! selected in lieu Of those sold, and I
which pre- empiion rights have atiache
as aforesaid, together with the section
= and parts of sections designated by eve
e numbers as aforesaid, and appropriate
+ as aforesaid, shall be held by The stat
+ Missouri for the use and purpose afort