, 1864-10-03
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the First Session OF the thirty
Eighth Co grcss.

AN Act granting lands to aid in the con-
struction Of railroad and telegraph line
from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound, on
the Pacific coast, by the northern route.
Be Il enacted by the Senate and House of
ReRreseatatiVesof The Unite 'Stdtesof Amer
lca in Congress assembled, That Richard D.
Rice John A. POorc. Samuel p. Strickland,
Samuel C. Fessenden, Charles p. Kimball,
Augustine Haines. Edwin r. ". Wiggin.
AnsOn p. Morrill,, Samuel J. Anderson, Of
Maine; William Sears, I. s. Wilmington,
Josiah Perham. james NJ. Beckett, A. W.
Ban6eld, Abiel Abbott, John Newell, Aus
tin L. Rogers, Nathaniel Greene, jnr., Oliver
Frost, John A. Bass, John O. Brcsbrey.
George Shiverick. Edward Tyler, Filandcr'
j. Forristall. Ivory II. Pope, Of Massachu-
sets; George 0pdyke, Farley Holmes,
John Huggins, Philander Reed, George
Briggs. Chauncey Vibbard, John c. Fre-
mont, Of New York; Ephraim Marsh, John
p. Jackson, jr., of New Jersey; S. NJ. Eel
ton. John Toy. o. J. Dickey, B. F. Archer,
g. w. Cass. J. Edgar Thompson, John A..
;Green, Of Pennsylvania; TN. Allyn, No
;ses W. Wilson, Horace Whitaker, Ira Bliss.
.Of Connecticut; Joseph A Gilmore. 0nslow
Stearns, Z. p. Emerson, Frederick Smyth,
William 4. Chandler, Of New Hampshire !;
Cyrus Aldricb, H. NJ. Rice, John McKusick,
II. G. Waite, Stephen Miller, Of Minnesota;
T. A. Chaplin, John Gregory Smith, George
Merrill. Of Vermont; James Y. Smith, Will
liam s. Slater, Isaac II. Southwick, Earl p.
Mason, of Rhode Island; Seth Fuller, Will
lam Kellogg, u. s. Grant, William B. Og-
den, William G. Greene, Leonard Sweat,
Henry W. Blodgett, Porter Sheldon, Of
IIlacis; J. NJ. Winchell, Ellsworth Cheese
bnOugh. James S. Emery, Of Kansas; Rich
ard II. Perkins, Richard Chencry, Samuel
Brannon, George Rowland, Henry Platt, Of
California; William +. Mercer, James w.
BrOwnley, Of Virginia; John ii b. LatrObe.
W. Prescott Smith, Of Maryland; Green
bury Slack, A. j. Boreman, of West Vir-
GINA; Thomas E. Bramletto, Frank Shorin,
Of Kentucky; John Brough, John A. Bing-
ham, 0raa Follett, John Gardner, s S.
IHommedieu, Harrison G. Blake, Philo
Chamberlin, of Ohio; John A. Duncan,
Samuel N. Harrington, Of Delaware; Tho
mas A. Morris, jesse L. Williams, Of In
diana; Samuel L. Case, Henry L. Hall,
David II. jerome, Thomas r. Gilbert. C. A.
TrOwhridge, Of Michigan; Edward IL.
Broadhca1, Alexander Mitchell, Benjamin
Ferguson, Levi Sterling. - Marshal. Of
Wisconsin; j. c. Ainsworth, Orlando 'Hu-
mason, H. w. Corbett, Henry Failing, of
Oregon !; ). B. s. Todd, NJ. X. Armstrong,
]. Shaw Gregory, J. Lc Berge, of Dakota
Territory; John Mullan, AnsOn G.. Henry.
8. D. Smith, Charles Terry, of Washington
Territory; IL. W.Siarr, Platt Smith, Nixon
Denton, William Leighton, B +. Allen,
Reuben Noble, John L. Davies, of Iowa !;
Willard 2. Hall, George X. Smith, II. Gayle
King, John G. Sargent, Of Missouri; Will
dam H. Wallace, Of Idaho Territory; j.
u. Lathrop, Henry D. Cooke, II. Il. Mer-
rick, Of the District Of Columbia, and all
such other persons who shall or may be as
sOciated with them, and their successors,
are hereby created and erected into body
corporate and polite, in deed and in law,
BY the name, style, and title of the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company" and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, and
shall be able to sue and to be sued, plead,
and be impleaded, defend and be defended,
10 all courts of law and equity within the
United States, and may make and have
common seal. And said corporation is
hereby authorized and empowered to lay
out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and
enjoy continuous railroad and telegraph
line, with the appurtenances, namely, be-
ginning at point on LakeSuperior, in the
State Of Minnesota or Wisconsin; thence
westerly by the most eligible railroad route,
as shall be determined by said company,
within the territory Of the United States,
on a line north Of the forty-ffth degree of
latitude to some point on Puget's Sound.
with branch, via the valley Of the Column
bia river, to point at or near Portland, in
the State Of Oregon, leaving the main trunk
line at the most suitable place, not more
than three hundred miles from its western
terminus; and is hereby vested with all the
powers, privileges, and immunities neces-
sary to carry into effect the purposes Of this
act as herein set forth. The capital stock