Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-07
[PUBLIo REsoLurIoN-No. So. I


JOINT RESOLUTION relative to GER
tain grant of lands for railroad purposes,
made to the state of Michigan in eighteen
hundred and fifty-six.
Resolved by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that the words ''Wiscon-
sin state line" in the first section of an act
entitled San act making grant of lands to
the state of Michigan, in alternate sections, to
aid in the construction of railroads in that
state" approved June third, eighteen hundred
and fifty-siX, shall, without forfeiture to said
state or its assigns of any rights or benefits
under said act, or exemption from any of the
conditions or obligations imposed thereby, be
construed to authorize the location of the
line of railroad provided for in said act from
Marquette, on Lake Superior, to the Wiscon-
sin state line, upon any eligible route from
the township Of Marquette aforesaid, to
point on the Wisconsin state line, near the
mouth of the Mcnomonee river, and touching
at favorable points on Green bay, with view
of securing railroad available for military
purposes from Green bay to the waters of
Lake Superior. And the line of railroad as
now located in pursuance of said act from
Marquette to the Wisconsin state line accord
ing to the records of the general land office, is
hereby authorized to be changed so as to con-
form to the route above indicated; which line
when surveyed and the maps and plans there
of filed in the proper office, as required under
said act Of June third, eighteen hundred and
ttty-siX, shall confer the same rights unon
and benefits to the state Of Michigan and its
assigns IN said new line as though the same
had been originally located under said act.
Sect. 2. And be it further resolved, that the
provisions of an act of congress- approved
August fourth, eighteen hundred and fftv-
two, entitled IAN act to grant the right of
way to all rail and plank roads and macadam-
amized turnpikes passing through the public
lands belonging to the United States" be and
the same be hereby extended so as to be an
plicable to the new line of railroad so as above
located Provided, the same shall be com
menced within two years from the fourth day
of August, eighteen hundred and siXty-two,
and shall be completed within five years
thereafter.
Sect. 2. And be it further resolved, that the
secretary of the interior be and is hereby
authorized 10 cause all even sections of public
lands that may be brought within SIX miles of
the new line of railroad, as herein provided
for to be sold at the same price and in the
same manner those have or might have been
according to the said act of June third,
eighteen hundred and fifty-six, upon the ORR
BInaily located route of railroad. And all
purchasers, on their heirs or assigns, within
tle slN-miie limits of the said originally locat-
Gu Gu route VINO may be more than six miles
n,,a the new me OF route hereby authorized
ana who have paid the sum of two doiiars o,d
my cents an acre, shall have the right o;thar
exchange their locations upon The Inc ~
ilrSt established to the new line upon the SANE
terms, IN IKE quantities, and in the co.,
manner, as on the line first established "', y.
aforesaid, or at their option to enter wit5o =,
further payment, any where within the MAJ