The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-02
PUBLIC ACTS.
CHAP. CCCI.

An Act to revive and extend the Provisions of
can act granting the Right of Way and max
ing Grant of Land to the States of Arkansas
and Missouri, to aid in the Construction of q
Railroad from Point upon the Mississippi op-
posite the mouth of the Ohio River, via Little
Rock, to the Texas Boundary, near Fulton, in
Arkansas, with Branches to Fort Smith and the
Mississippi River" approved February g. 1858,
and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
prescntatives OF the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the "Act granting the
right of way and making grant of land TO the
States of Arkansas and Missouri to aid in the
struction of a railroad from point upon the Mis-
souri, to aid in the construction of railroad from
point upon the Mississippi opposite the mouth
OF the Ohio River, via Little Rock, to the Texas
boundary, near Fulton, in Arkansas, with BRAN
chcs to Fort Smith and the Mississippi River
approved February nine, eighteen hundred and
fifty three, with ali the provisions therein made,
be, and the same is hereby, revived and extended
for the term often years from the passage of this
act; and all the lands therein granted, which rev.
erted to the United States under the provisions
of said act be, and the same are hereby, restored
| to the same custody, CONTROL and condition, and
made subject to the uses and trusts in all respects
rs they were before and at the time such rcyer-
sion took effect Provided. That all mineral lands
within the limits of this grant and grant made in
section two of this act are hereby reserved to the
United States: And provided further, That all
property and troops OF the United States shall at
all times be transported over said railroad and
branches at the cost, charge, and expense OF the
company or corporation owning or operating said
road and branches respectively, when so required
by the government of the United States.
See. 2. And be it further enacted, That there
is hereby grrnted added to, and made part of the
donation of lands hereby renewed and made, sub
iect to the same uses and trusts, and under the
same custody, CONTROL and conditions, and to
be held and disposed of in the same manner as if
in oil 1pH in orr n a
sections and parts of sections, designated by odd
numbers, lying along the outer line of lands here
toforc granted, and within five miles on each side
thereof, excepting lands reserved or othcrWlSe
appropriated by law, or to which the right of
pre-emption homestead settlement has attach
ed: Provided That the additional quantity of
lands hereby granted, when added to the lands
specified in section one hereof, shall not exceed,
in the aggregate for each mile of railroad: And
provided further, That the lands embraced in
this grant and the grant revived by section one
of this act shall be disposed of only rs follows
Whenever proof shall be furnished, satisfactory
to the Secretary of the Interior, that any section
of ten consecutive miles of said road and branch
es is completed in good, substantial, and work
manlike manner rs first-class railroad, the said
Secretary of the Interior shall issue patents for
all the lands granted as aforesaid not exceeding
ten sections per mile situate opposite 10 and
within the limits of twenty miles OF the section
of said road and branches thus completed, and
when like proof shall be furnished that another
section of ten miles of said road in said States or
on :he said branches respectfully connected with
the preceding section is completed as aforesaid,
the Secretary of the Interior shall issue patents
in like manner as in case of the first compile
ted sections, and so on from time to time until
the whole is completed rs herein provided, when
the Secretary of the Interior shall issue patents
for all the remaining lands herein granted, not
exceeding the aggregate amount provided for and
located It's required by sections one and two of
this act: And provided further, That if one sec
tiOn OF twenty miles of each of said railroads
hro,N f,,11,
completed as a first class railroad within three
years from the time this act becomes law, and
at least one section of twenty miles on each of
said roads and branches in each year thereafter,
and the whole of said roads and branches within
ten years from the time this act shall take cf-
feet then and in either of said cases all the lands
granted or the grant which is revived or eXtcn-
ded by this act, and which at tile time shall be
unpatented to or for the benefit of the road or
company making or suffering such failure shall
revert to the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the
lands mentioned in this act and hereby granted,
are hereby reserved from entry, pre-empton,
appropriation to any other purpose than herein
contemplated, for the said term of ten years
from the passage Of this act Provided, That all
Lands heretofore given to the State of Missouri
for the construction Of the Cairo and Fulton rail
road, or for the of said road lying in the State
of Missouri, and all lands proposed to be grant
ed by this act for the use or in aid of the road
herein named, and lying in said State of Missou-
RI shall be granted and patented to the said State
whenever the road shall be completed through
said State, which lands may be held by said State
and used toward paying the State the amount of
bonds heretofore issued by it to aid said compa-
n.y. and all interest accrued or to accrue thereon:
Provided further, That the provisions of this act
so far as the same relate to the Memphis and
Little Rock and the Little Rock and the Fort
Smith branches of said road, shall not take eff
feet until the Secretary of the Interior shall
make and file certificate in his office and the
office of the Secretary of State of Arkansas sta
ting that the companies or corporations claiming
the benefit of this act in behalf of said branches
have reorganized their boards or directors in q
lawful manner, and, after such reorganization,
that they have respectively rescinded ali acts,
resolutions, or proceedings, transferring the
lands, rights, or privileges of such corporations
or companies to any convention, State or au-
thority of the late socaled confederate states of
America.
Approved, July %, 1865