The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-20
OEEICIAL.

law, purchase the at the ncreaseu piice:
md provtded also That settlers under the provisions
of the homestead law who comply with the terms and
requirements of said act shall be entitled to patents for
an amount not exceeding eighty acres EACH anything in
this act to the contrary NOTWITHSTANDING
SEC o. dnd he urhe' enacted Ihat the lands hereby
granted shabe subject to the disposal OF the legislature
of the State OF Minnesota for the purposes Aforesaid
and other And the said railroads and branches shall
be and remain public highways for the use OF the gov
eminent Of the United States free OF all toll or other
of the United States
SEC. g. And be il further enacted That tho lands here
by ana heretofore granted to said territory or State OF
Minnesota shall be disposed of by said State for the pu
poses aforesaid only and in following, namely
hen the governor of said State shall certify to the Sec
rotary OF the Interior that any section OF ten consecn
tive miles OF said road completed In good substantial
and workmanlike manner as a 6rst-class railroad and
the said secretary shall be satisfied that sail State has
complied In good fth with this requirement. the said
Secretary of the Interior shall issue to the said State
patents Tor all the lands granted and selected as aore
sad not exceeding ten sections per mile situated oppo
site TO and within limit of twenty miles OF the line Of
said section Of road thus completed extending along the
whole length of said completed section of ten miles Of
road and no further And when the governor of sad
state shall certify to the Secretary OF the Interior and
the secretary shall be satisfied that another section of said
road ten consecutive miles in extent connecting with
the preceding section with some other rsclass rail-
road which may be at the time in successful operation Is
completed as aforesaid the said Secretary OF the Interior
shall issue to the said State patents for all the lands
granted and situated opposite to and within the limit of
twenty miles OF the line of said completed section Of road
or roads, and extending the length said section and
further not exceeding sections of land per mile for
all that part Of said road thus completed under the pro-
visions of this act and the act TO which this amend
ment, ana SO, from time to time, until said roads and
branches completed And when the governor of said
State shall so certify, and the Secretary of the Interior
shall be satisfied that the whole of any of said roads
and branches is completed in good, substantial and
workman'ike manner, as fstclass railroad the said
Secretary of the Interior shall issue to the said State pa
tents to all the remaining lands granted for and on ac-
count of said completed road and branches In this act
situated within the said limits Of twenty miles from the
Of
and branches: Propided That land shall be granted
or conveyed to said State under the provisions of this act
on account OF the cons ructon Of any railroad part
thereof that has been constructed under the provisions of
any other act at the date of the passage of this act and
adopted part of the line of railroad provided for in
this act: And provided That nothing herein contained
shall interfere with any existing rights acquired under
law of Congess heretofore enacted making grants Of
land to the State of Minnesota to aid in the construction
of railroads: and pr0pided fuyther That said lands
granted by this prior acts shall not in any be
disposed Of except the patented under the
provisions Of this act and shond the State fail to
plete any one of said roads or branches within eight
years after the passage of this act then the said lands
undispoed of aforesaid granted account of said
road or branches shall revert to the United States
SEC. T. And be ii further enacted That as the
governor of the said State of Minnesota shall file
to be filed with the Secretary Of the Interior maps deg
mating the routes Of said road and branches then it shall
be the duty of the Secretary Of the Interior to withdraw
from market the lands embraced within the provisions of
this act.
SEC s. And be it further enacted That the United
States mail shall be transported said road under the
direction of the Post Office Department. at such price as
Congress may by law provde Porded That until such
price is fixed by law, the PostmasterGeneral shall have
power to fix the rate of compensation
SEC. o. And be 1t further enacted, That the provisions
of this act shall also be construed to apply and
tend to that portion of the line authorized to be vacated
by the joint resolution approved July twelfth eighteen
hundred and sixtytwo entitled GO joint resolution ai-
thorzing the State of Minnesota to change the line OF
certain branch railroads in said State and for other
poses" notwithstanding the vacation thereof by said
State though said joint resolution had not passed. and
also to the line adopted by said State in lieu of the por
ton of the line 80 vacated.
SEC. TO- And be further enacted, That the time men
toned in an act entitled &C. An act making grant OF
lands the State of Iowa. in alternate sections aid
tho construction of certain railroads in said State fol
the completion of the railroads named in said act be
and the same is hereby, extended two years
SEC. H. And be further enacted That the last clause
of the second section OF entitled act to reg
lato the compensation of registers and receivers of the
land offices in the several States and Territories in the
location of lands by States and corporations under gen
eral grants from Congress- and for other purposes be
and the same Is hereby so amended as to read "a mar
of the change shall be filed with the commissioner of The
general and-oce within three months after the said
change of location shall be made"
Approved, March 3, 1865.
AN ACT to regulate the Taking Of DISPOSITIONS in certain
Cases.
Be it enacted by gte Senate and House of Represen
tatircs Of the United States Of America, in Congress
assembled That any defendant in criminal case, in thu
District of Columbia either after preliminary examita
ton Indictment or information may examine witnessed
on commission in such manner as is hereinafter pre-
| scrbed ...
wishing to take the deposition Of witness residing
than one hundred miles from the city of Washington
may select any of the following officers as commits
sion(er to take such deposition the clerk or judge
any court of record or any notary public or any consn
of the United States either by the Of Office of suc
officer, by his individual name and official style; an
the name of the court of which such constituted commits
sioner is clerk Judge and the name of the State an
county if without the United States the name of til
State and town. or city, in which such notary or cons
resides must be stated in the notice and In the commits
| sion.
SEC g. And be 1t further enacted That five days motto
must be given by defendant his her attorney,
the time when a commission will be sued out of the o.
flee of the clerk of the criminal court for the District
Columbia for taking the deposition of the witness, givin
the name of the witness which notice must be accom-
panied with copy OF the inerrogatories to be aske
SEC l. And be it further enacted, That at before til
time fixed in the notice, the district attorney may III
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES; but if he fail to do, the cler
1, shall file the following:
| made from your personal knowledge and If not,
your answers show what are made from your persons
knowledge, and what from information, and the sourc
of that inirmationf If not now show what is from
| formation and give its source.
O. State everything you know concerning this case ff
yorable to either the government or the defendant
SEC s. And be it further enacted That the notice an
of heterogeneous may be served and returned
fine same and by the same officers or persons
proyded by law for the service and return OF sun
mons subpoena in civil actions within the DISTRICT
seq 6. And be ii further enacted That the commisso
shall issue in the name of the criminal court and unde
lie seal and be signed by the clerk and need col
tain nothing but the authority conferred upon the con
missioner and instructions to guide him, statement
the cause in which the testimony is to be used ana cop
| of all the interrogatories filed appended,
SFc T. And be ii further enacted, That the person D
fore whom any of the dispositions above contemplated az
taken must cause the Intermediates appended 70 N
commission to be written out and the answers thereto
he inserted Immediately underneath the respective que