The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-11-20
owed, June 21, 1862.
No. 80.


Joint Resolution relative to a certain Grant of
Land for Railroad Purposes made to the State
of Michigan in eighteen hundred and ffty-six.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatves of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the words " Wisconsin
State line, in .he first section of an act entitled
. An act making grant of lands to the State of
Michigan, in alternate sections, to aid in the con-
struction of railroads in said State" approved
June third, eight cen hundred and ttysiX, shall,
without forfeiture said State its assigns OF
any rights or benefits under said act, or exemp-
tion from any OF the conditions or obligations
imposed thereby, be construed to authorize the
location of the line of railroad provided for in
said act from Marquett-, on Lake Superior, to
the Wisconsin State line, upon any eligible route
from the townships OF Marquette Aforesaid, to a
point on the Wisconsin State line, near the mouth
of the MenomoneG River, and touching at favor
able points OF Green Bay, with a view OF securing
a railroad available for military purposes from
Green Aay to the waters of Lake Superior. And
the line OF railroad as now located III pursuance
of said act from Marquette to the Wisconsin
Stale line, according to the records of the Cen
erai Land Office, is hereby authorized to be chang
ed so as to conform to the route above indicated;
which line, when surveyed and the maps and
plans thereof filed i'll the proper office, as re-
qured under said act OF June third, eighteen
hundred and fftysiX, shall confer the same rights
upon and benefits to the State of Michigan and
its assigns in said new line, as though the same
had been originally located under said act.
Sec. =. And be 1t further resolved, That the
provisions OF an act OF Congress- approved Au-
gust fourth, eighteen hundred and fiftytwo, enti
tied An to grant the right of way to all rail
and plank roads and HcAdamized turnpikes pass
ing through tie public lands belonging to the
United States,' be, and the same are hereby, eX-
tended so as to be applicable TO the new line OF
railroad above to be located: Provided,
The same snail be commenced within two years
from lie fourth day OF August, eighteen hundred
and sixty two, and shall be completed within five
years thereafter.
See 3. and be it further resolved, That the !
Secretary ofdhc Interior be, and he is hereby,
ioriZed cause all sections parts of
ev. sections of public lands that may be brought
within six miles of the line OF railroad, as
herein provided for, to be sold at the same price
and i'll the same manner those have or might have
been, according to the said act of June third,
eighteen hundred and ty-siX, upon the original
~ located route of railroad. And all purchasers,
or their heirs assigns, within the six mile
limits of said originally located route, who shall
DC more rnan six miles from the new line of route
hereby authorized and who have paid the sum of
TWO dollars and fifty cents an acre, shall have the
right >ithcr exchange their locations upon the
line as first established to the new line upon the
same terms, in like quantities, and in the same
manner, on the line first established, as afore-
said, or at their option to enter, without further
payment, anywhere within the Marquette land
district, in the State of Michigan, or that of the
Grand Traverse land district, in said State, lying
north west of Lake Michigan, an additional
quantity of public lands subject to private entry,
ut dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, equal
to the quantity entered by them at two dollars
and fifty cents per acre, that the lands original
ly entered by them shall be thus reduced to the
rate OF one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre.
Sec. 4 And be it further resolved, That the
even sections of public Ends reserved to the Uni
ted States by the aforesaid act OF June third,
eighteen hundred and ifty-six, along the original
ly located route OF the Marquette and Wisconsin
State Line Railroad Company, except where such
sections shall fall within six miles of the new line
of road aforesaid proposed to br located,
and along which no railroad has been construct
ed shall hereafter be subject to sale at one dollar
and twenty five cents per acre.
Sec. ). And be it further resolved, That upon
the filing in the General Land Office of the lists
of said railroad lands, in whole orin part, as now
selected and certified in the General Land Office,
with the certificate of the Governor of the State
of Michigan, under the seal OF the State that said
State and its assigns surrender all claim to the
lands, aforesaid, set forth and described in the
lists thereof thus certified, and that the same
have never been pledged or sold or in anywise
encumbcred, then the State of Michigan or its
signs shall be entitled to receive like quantity
Of land, selected in like manner, upon the new
line Of road as thus surrendered upon the first
line and TO the extent of six sections pc mile in
the aggregate for every mile of the new line, ac
cording to the general provisions of the act OF
June third, eighteen hundred and fftysiX. And
it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office to reoffer for public sale, in
the usual manner the lands embraced in the lists
of surrendered lands aforesaid, when duly filed in
his Office, as herein directed.
Approved, July B. 1862.