The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-20

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
rcsentatives OF the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the officer in charge of
the Library of Congress be, and he is hereby,
directed to furnish to the officer in charge of the
volumes of the Exploring Expedite of Captain
Wilkes, now in the possession of the Library.
Approved, April "a, 1862.
No 80
A Resolution explanatory of and in Addition to
the Act of June third, eighteen hundred and
ffty-six, granting public Lands to the State of
Wisconsin to aid in the Construction of Rail-
roads in said State.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatlves of the Uniled States of America in
Congress assembled, That the word ''northerly,"
in the first section of the act entitled q An act
granting public lands to the State of Wisconsin
TO ald IN the construction of railroads in said
State, approved June third, eighteen hundred
and hfty-six, shall, without forfeiture to said
State or its assigns of any rights or benefits un-
der said act, or exemption from any of the con
ditlons or obligations imposed thereby, be con-
strued to authorize the location of the line Of
railroad in said first section provided for, upon
any eligible route within ranges sixteen to TWEEN
ty-thrce, inclusive, east of the fourth principal
meridian. And the line of railroad now loca
TED according to the records of the General Land
Office in pursuance of said act is hereby authorz-
ed to be changed to within the above specified
limits: Provided, however, That upon the con-
structlon OF said railroad upon the new line,
OF sufficient part thereof, according to the
terms OF said act, the State of Wisconsin, its
originally located and in the manner prescribed
by the act, the same quantity Of lands, and no
more or other except as hereinafter provided for,
as it or they would have received if such railroad
had been constructed upon the line originally
located
Sec. 4 And be it further resolved, That, there
be and is hereby granted to the State of Wiscon-
sin, Tor the purpose of aiding in the construction
of a railroad from the town of Appleton, in said
State, to some point on Green Bay, al or near the
mouth OF Fox River, in said State, so much of the
public lands OF the United States lying at or near
tile mouth of said river, in the county of Brown
and State of Wisconsin, known as the Fort
Howard Military Reserve, as may he required for
right OF way, tracks, turnouts, depots, work
shops, warehouses, wharves, and other railroad
uses, not exceeding eighty acres, to be selected
by the State of Wisconsin or her assigns as to eX-
clude the fort thereirom: Provided, how ever,
That if no railroad be constructed and in running
order between the termini in this section men,
toned within three years from the passage of this
joint resolution then this grant shall be void.
Sec. ). And be it further resolved, That the
Secretary of the Interior be and he is hereby au
thoriZcd to all sections or parts of
even sections Of public land that may be brought
within six miles of the new line of railroad, us
herein provided for, to be sold at the same price
and i'll the same manner as those have been upon
the originally located route of railroad An all
purchasers, or their heirs or assigns within the
siX-mile limits of thh said originally located
route, who shall be more than six miles from the
new line OF route herein authorized and who
have paid the sum of two dollars and fifty cents
acre, shall have the right either to exchange
their locations upon the line as first est blished
to the new line, upon the same terms, in like
quantities, and in the same manner, as on the
line first established aforesaid, or at their Op
tion, to enter without further payment anywhere
within the Menasha land district in the State of
Wisconsin, an additional quantity of public lands
subject to private entry at one dollar ami twenty
FIVE cents an acre equal to the quantity entered
ty them at two dollars and fifty cents an acre, so
that the lands originally entered by them shall
thus be reduced to the rate OF one dollar and
twenty five cents an acre.
Sec. 4. And be it further resolved, That the
even ,ectlOnS OF public lands reserved to the Uni
ted States by the aforesaid act of June third,
eighteen hundred and ffty-sx along the original
ly located route of railroad north of the said
town of Appleton, and along which railroad
has been constructed, shall hereafter be sold at
one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre
Approved, April 25 1862.