The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-15
PUBLIC ACTS.

II. 1866"
PUBLIC ACTS.
ANDREW JOHNSON, President. LA FAYETTE
S. FOSTER, President of the Senate. LA
FAYETTE S. FOSTER was elected President
OF the Senate pro temp0re on the seventh
day Of March, anh acted until the end
OF the Session. SCHUYLER CoLFAX, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
CHAP. CLXXXII.
An Act granting Aid ill the Construction of
Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Town of
Folsom to the Town of Pacerville, in the State
of California
(CoNCLUDED.)
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That when
ever said PiaccrYilic and Sacramento Valley Rail
road Company shall have ten consecutive miles
Of any portion of said railroad and telegraph line
ready for the service contemplated, the President
OF the United States shall appoint three commits
sioners to examine the same, and if it shall ap-
pear that en- miles of said railroad and telegraph
line have been completed in good and substan-
tial manner, and in all respects as required by this
act, the commissioners shall report to the
President of the United States, and patents of
lands, aforesaid, shall be issued to said com
pany, confirming to said company the right and
title to said lands, opposite to and cOtcrmlnous
with said completed section OF said road, unless
said lands are covered by the exceptions of this
act. And from time to time, whenever ten addl-
tioual miles shall have been constructed, compile
ted, and in readiness aforesaid, and verified by
the commissioners to the President of the United
States, then patents snail be lSSGeu 10 SAID COM
pany, conveying the additional sections Of land,
as aforesaid; and fast as every ten miles
of said road is completed, as aforesaid Provided,
that said commissioners named III this section
shall be paid, by the company, ten dollars per
day for the time actually employed, and ten cents
per mile tor the distance actually and necessarily
SEC. /. And be it further enacted, That said
Pacerville and Sacramento Valley railroad shall
be constructed in Il substantial and ~orkman-like
manner, wit all the necessary drains, culverts,
bridges, vaducts, crossings, turnouts, stations
and Watering places, and ali other appurtcnances,
including furniture and rolling stock, equal in
all respects to railroads of the first class, when
prepared ior business, with rails of the best quail
ty manufactured from American iron, and d uni
form @uuga shall be established the entire length
of the road. And there shall be constructed
telegraph line of the most substantial and ap-
proved description, to he operated on the entire
route: Provided, That said company shall not
charge higher rates to the government, its officers
agents than they do to individuals for tele-
graphic service, and that the said railroad shall
be and remain pubic highway for the Use of the
government of the United States free of all toll
Or Other Charge upon the transportation OF any
property or troops OF the United States and the
same shall be trans ported said road at the
cost, charge, and expense of the corporation or
company, owning or operating the same when
required by the United States to do so.
Sec. 5. And be il lurther enacted, That the
President Of The United States shall cause such
lands to be surveyed for twenty miles i'll width
both sides of the entire line OF said road after
the general route shall be fixed, and fast
railroad ; and the odd sections of land hereby
granted Snail not be liable to sale, entry, or
presumption, before or after they are surveyed,
except by said company, as provided in this actI
but the provisions oi the act OF September, eigh-
teen hundred :nd forty-onc, granting pre-emp-
ton rights, and the acts auIendatory thereof, and
of the act entitled IAN act TO secure homGSteadS
to actual iers on the public domain" APPROX
ed May twenty, eighteen hundred and siXty-two,
shall be- and the same arc hereby, extended to All
other lands ON the line o said road when sur
Veyed, excepting those hereby granted to said
company and the sections and parts of sections
of land which by the aforesaid grant shall remain
in the United States within ten miles on each
side of said road shall not be sold for less than
double the minimum price of public lands when
sold.
SEC g. And be it further enacted, That each
and every grant, right, and privilege herein are
made and given to and accepted by said Pla
ceryiiIc and Sacramento Valley Railroad Compa-
ny, upon and subject to the following conditions,
namely: That the said company shall commence
the work on said road within one year from the
approval of this act by the President and shall
complete the whole road by the fourth day of
July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
SEC Z. And be it further enacted, That the
United States make the several conditioned grants
herein, and that the SAID Placerville and Sacra-
mento Valley Railroad Company accept the same,
upon the further condition that if the said COM
pany make any breach of the conditions hereof,
and allow the same to continue for upwards of
year. then in such case the title to the public
lands herein reserved for the construction of said
road shall revert to the United States.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all peo-
subscribe to the stock OF the said Placerville and
Sacramento Valley Railroad Company until the
whole capital is take up, by complying with tue
terms OF subscription.
SEC. O. And be it further enacted, That the
ceptancc of the terms. conditions, and lmposl-
tiOns of this act by tine said Placerville and Sa-
cramcnto Valley Railrood Company shall be sig
nitied in writing, under the corporate seal of
said company, duly executed, pursuant to the di-
rectors first had and obtained, which acceptance
shall be made within one year after the passage
of this act, and not afterwards, and shall be de-
posted with the Secretary of the Interior.
SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the
said company is authorized to accept to its own
use any grant. donation, loan power, franchise,
aid or assistance which may be granted to
ferred upon said company by the Congress Of the
United States, by the legislature of any State,
county, or municipal corporation. or by any cor
poration, person or persons, and said corporation
is authorized to hold and enjoy any such grant,
donation, loan, power, franchise, aid assist
ance, to its own use, for the purpose aforesaid.
SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That unless
the said Placcrville and Sacramento Valley Rail-
tions to the stock of said company to the amount
of four hundred thousand dollars, with five per
centum paid within one year after the passage and
approval of this act, il shall be null and void.
SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That Con-
grcss may at any time, having due regard for the
rights of said Placcrvllc and Sacramento Valley
Railroad Company, add to, alter, amend, or re-
peal this act
Sec 13 And be it further enacted, That all lots
in villages, towns, and cities shall be exempted
from, and not subject to, the operations of this
act.
Approved, July Ii, 1866.