Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-13


San act donating lands to the several
States and Territories which may provide
colleges for the benefit of agriculture and
the mechanic arts approved July sec
ond, eighteen hundred and siXty-two, and
notice thereof given at the proper land
office.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That
the time for designating the general route
of said railroad, and of filing the map of
the same, and the time for the compile
ton of that part of the railroads required
by the terms of said act of each company,
be and the same is hereby extended one
year from the time in said act designated;
and that the General Pacific Railroad
Company of California shall be required
to complete twenty-five miles of their
said road in each year thereafter, and
the whole to the State line within four
years, and that only One-half of the com
pensation for services rendered for the
Government by said companies shall be
required to be applied to the payment of
the bonds issued by the Government in
aid of the construction of said roads.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That
the proviso to section four of said act Is
hereby modified as follows, viz: And the
President of the United States is hereby
authorized, at any time after the passage
! of this act, to appoint for each and every
of said roads three commissioners, as pro-
vided for in the act to which this act is
amendatory; and the verified statement
of the president of the California compaI,
ny, required by said section four, shall
| be filed in the office of the United States
surveyor general for the State of CalifoT-
MIA, instead of being presented to the
| President of the United States; and the
said surveyor general shall thereupon no.
| tify the said commissioners of the filing
! of such statement, and the said commits
sioners shall thereupon proceed to exam
inc the portion of said railroad and tele-
graph line so completed, and make their
report thereon to the President of the
United States, as provided in the act of
which this is amendatory. And such
statement may be filed and such railroad
and telegraph line be examined and re-
ported on by the said commissioners, and
the requisite amount of bonds may be is
sued, and the lands appertaining thereto
may be set apart, located, entered, and
patented, as provided in this act and the
act to which this is amendatOry, upon
the construction by said railroad compa-
ny of California of any portion of not less
than twenty consecutive miles of their
said railroad and telegraph line, upon the
| certificate of said commissioners that
such portion is completed as required by
the act of which this is amendatOry. And
section ten of the act of which this is
amendatory is hereby amended by insert
ing after the words "United States" in
the last clause, the words 'and States
intervening"
SEC. Z. And be it further enacted, That
so much of section seventeen of said act
as provides for reservation by the Gov
| eminent of portion of the bonds to be
issued to aid in the construction of the
said railroads is hereby repealed. And
the failure ofany one company to com
ply fully with the conditions and require
ments of this act, or the act to which this
is amendatory, shall not work a forfeit
ure of the rights, privileges, or franchise
of any other company or companiesEtha
shall.h have complied with the same.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted. That
for the purpose of facilitating the work on
said railroad, and of enabling the said
company as early as practicable to COM
mence the grading of said railroad in the
region of the mountains, between the
eastern base of the Rocky mountains and
| the western base of the Sierra Nevada
mountains, so that the same may be final
ly completed within the time required by
law, it is hereby provided that whenever
the chief engineer of the said company,
and said commissioners, shall certify that
a certain portion of the work required
| [reqriredl to prepare the said road for
| the superstTucture of any such section of
twenty miles is done, (Which said certih
cate shall be duly verified, the Secretary
of the Treasury is hereby authorized and
required, upon the delivery of such GER
tifcate, to issue to said company pro-
portion of said bonds, not exceeding two
thirds of the amount of bonds authorized
to be issued under the provisions of the
act, to aid in the construction of such sec
ton of twenty miles, nor in any case ex-
ceeding two-thirds of the value of
the work done, the remaining
one-third to remain until the said section
is fully completed and certified by the
commissioners appointed by the Presi
dent, according to the terms and provis-
ions of the said act; and no such bonds
shall issue to the Union Pacific Railroad
Company for work done west of Salt Lake
City under this section, more than three
hundred miles in advance of the compile
ted continuous line of said railroad from
the point of beginning on the one hun
dredth MERIDIAN of longitude.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That
to enable any of said corporations to
make convenient and necessary connex-
| ions with otherroads, it is hereby author
lied to establish and maintain all neces-
sary ferries upon and across the Missouri
river and other rivers which its road may
pass in its course; and authority is hereby
given said corporation to construct bridges
over the said Missouri river and all other
rivers for the convenience of said road:
Provided, That any bridge or bridges it
may construct over the Missouri river or
any other navigable river on the line of
said road shall be constructed with suita-
bic and proper drawers for the passage of
maintained, at the expense of said COM