Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-05-26

shall not be sold for less than double
the minimum price of public lands
when sold, nor shall any of said lands
become subject to sale at private entry
until the same shall have been first
offered at pnblic sale to the highest
bidder at or above the minimum price
as aforesaid Proridm, That actual
bona fide settlers under the pre-emp-
tfon laws Of the United States may,
after due proof of settlement, improve
ment, and occupation, as now provl-
ded by law, purchase the same at the
increased minimum price: And prora-
ded, also, That settlers under the pro.
visions of the homestead law, who
comply with the terms and require
mcnts of said act, shall be entitled to
patents for an amount not exceeding
eighty acres each, any thing in this
act to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Sec. 8. And be 1t further enacted,
That the lands hereby granted shall
be subject to the disposal of the Leg
islature of Iowa, for the purposes
aforesaid and no other. And the said
railroads shall be, and remain, public
highways for the use of the Govern
ment of the United States, free of all
toll or other charges upon the trans
portation of any property or troops OF
the United States.
Sec. 4. And be IL further enacted,
That the lands hereby granted shall
be disposed of by said State, for the
purposes aforesaid only, and in man.
ner following, namely When the
Governor of said State shall certify to
the Secretary of the Interior that any
section of ten consecutive miles of
either of said roads is completed in a
good, substantial, and workmanlike
manner as first-class railroad, then
the Secretary of the Interior shall is.
sue to tho State patents for one hum
dred sections of land for the benefit Of
the road having completed the ten
consecutive miles as aforesaid. When
the Governor Of said State shall ccrti-
fy that another section of ten consec-
utive miles shall have been completed
as aforesaid, then the Secretary Of the
Interior shall issue patents to said
State in like manner, for like num-
Der and when certificates of the COM
pletion of additional sections of ten
consecutive miles of either of said
roads are, from time to time, made as
aforesaid, additional sections of lands
shall be patented as aforesaid, until
said roads, or either Of them, are com.
pleted, when the whole of the lands
hereby granted shall be patented to
the State for the uses aforesaid and
none other: PrOridecl, That if the
said McGregor Western Railroad Com
pany, or assigns, shall fail to COM
plete at least twenty miles of its said
road during each and every year from
the date of its acceptance of the grant
provided for in this act, then the State
may resume said grant, and SO dis
pose of the same as to secure the com
pletion of road on said line and up
on such terms, within such time, al
the State shall determine Procided
further, That if the said roads are not
completed within ten years from theil
several acceptance of this grant, tn,
said lands hereby granted and not pat
ented shall revert to the State o
Iowa for the purpose of securing tn
completion of the said roads within
such time, not to exceed five years
and upon such terms as the State shall
determine And prorided, further
That said lands shall not in any man
ner be disposed of or encountered, es
cept as the same are patented undo
the provisions of this act /; and shout
the State fail to complete said road
within five years after the ten year
aforesaid, then the said lands undi.
posed of as aforesaid shall revert I
the United States.
Sec. s. And be ii further cndctet
That as soon as the Governor of sal
State of Iowa shall file or cause to b
filed with the Secretary of the Inter-
or maps designating the routes OF sai'
roads, then it shall be the duty of tn,
Secretary of the Interior to withdraw
from market the lands embraced with
in the provisions of this act.
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under the direction Of the Post Offic,
Department, at such price as Congress
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