Nebraska advertiser., 1862-05-22
TPUBLIc REsoLUTIov-No. 29l

ARES0LUTI0N explanatory Of and in adj
dilion 10 the act Of June third, eighteen
hundred and fity-six, granting public lands
to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the con-
sruction Of railroads in said State.
Be itresolved be- the Senate and House Of Rep
Fesentatives Of tie United States Of America IN
Congress assembled, That the word "norther-
ly,"i in The FIRST section of the act entitled IAN
act granting public lands to the State Of Wis
eonsin to aid in the construction Of railroads
in said State" approved June third eighteen
hundred and flty@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 there
by, be construed to authorize the location Of
the line Of railroad in said 6nst section pro-
vided for upon any eligible route within ranges
sixteen to twenty-three, inclusive, east of the
fourth principal meridian. And the line Of
railroad as now located according to the records
of the General Land Office in pursuance Of
said act is hereby authorized to BE- changed to
within the above specified limits Provided,
however, That upon the construction of said
railroad upon the new line, or Of a sufficient
part thereof, according to the terms Of said act,
the State Of Wisconsin, its grantees or assigns,
shall receive upon the route originally located,
and in the manner prescribed by the set, the
same quantity of lands, and no more or other,
except as hereinafter provided for, as it or they
would have receiTed If such railroad had been
constructed upon the line originally located.
Sec. 2. And be il further resolved, That
there be and is hereby granted to the Slate Of
Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in the
construction Of a railroad from the won Of
Appleton, in said State. 10 some point on
Green Bay at or near the mouth of Fox river,
in said State, so much of the public lands Of
the United States lying at or near the mouth
Of said river, in the county of Brown and State
of Wisconsin, knswn as the Fort Howard Mil
itary Reserve, as may be required for right of
way, tracks, t~urnouts, depots, workshops, ware
houses, wharyes. and other railroad uses, not
exceeding eighty acres, TO be so selected by
the State of Wisconsin or her assigns as to
exclude the fort thereirom /; Provided, how
ever, That If no railroad be construed and in
running order between the termin IL this Sec
ton mentioned within three years from the
passage of this joint resolution, then his grant
shall be void.
SEC. 8. And be it further resolved, That
the Secretary of the Interior be and be is
hereby authorized to cause all even sections
or parts of even sections Of public land 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 man.
ner as those have been upon the originally To-
Gated route of railroad. And all purchasers.
or their heirs or assigns, within the six-mile
limits Of the said originally located route,
who shall be more than six miles from the
new lire of route herein authorized, and who
have paid the sum of two dollars and fifty
cents an acre, shall have the right either to X
change their locations upon the line as first
established to the new line, upon the same
terms, liz like quantities. and in the same man.
ner, as on the line FIRST established as afore-
said, or, at their option, to enter without fur
Their payment, any where within the Menasha
land district, in the State of Wisconsin, an adj
ditional quantity of public lands subject to
private entry at one dollar and twenty FIVE
cents al acre to the quantity entered by them
at two dollars and fifty cents an acre, so that
the lands originally entered by them scall be
thus reduced to the rate of one dollar and
twenty-five cents an acre. 9s s e1euI|
SIC. 4. And be il further resolved, That
the even sections of public lands reserved to
the United States by the aforesaid act Of June
third, eighteen hundred and ~ffty-six, along
the originally located route of railroad north
of the said town of Appleton, and along
which no railroad has been. constructed, shall
hereafter be sold at one dollar and twenty-five
cents an acre.
Approved, April rs. 1862. 4g9