Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-05-01

nature, or on failure to comply will
any of the conditions of this act, Tn,
State of Iowa may mt any time re
sumo all rights conferred by this ac
and resume all rights to the lands
hereby granted and which may re-
main undisposed of to said company
on account OF road actually built lii
compliance with the terms of thi.
act ; prouided, that IL I'm any ON,
year more road shall he built than |,
required by this act IL shall be regard
ed and treated as road built the mex,
succeeding year VI years.
SEC. 4. This railway shall be con.
structed upon the usual gauge o
other first-class railroads In this State
and shall be constructed and finished
In style and of quality equal &
the average of other first-class west
ern railroads.
SEC. 5. The said company shall bt
entitled to the benefit Of the selec.
tions Of land already made under thu
grant to the State of Iowa, of lands
to aid In the construction of rail.
road from McGregor westward on oi
near the forty-third parallel, approved
May 18th, 1854; and the line located
under said grant shall be binding
only so far as applicable to said sec.
tions.
SEC. 8. tits hereby made the duty
OF the Governor when ten consecu.
tive miles Of railroad has been built
In accordance with the provisions oi
this act, to certify that fact to the
Secretary Of the Interior, and so on
foreach consecutive ten miles thereof,
as the same shall be completed, and
whenever the said McGregor and
Sioux City Railway Company shall
have completed I'm good running or
der, according. to the provisions of
this act, its railway to a point within
one mile Of st. Charles City, In
Floyd county, 1t shall be the duty OF
the Governor Of this State 10 cause
patents TO he issued to said railway
company for ope hundred aud fifty
sections OF said land, and when the
said railway company shall In like
manner have completed itsrailway
To the east line of range twenty-two,
In Cerro Gordo county, then the said
Governor shall cause patents to be
issued to said railway company for
one hundred and fifty sections of
land; and when the said railway
company shall I'm like manner have
completed its railway to q point
within one mile of Algona, in Kos.
suth county, then the Governor shall
cause patents to be issued to said
company for one hundred and fifty
sections more of said lands and when
the said railway company shall In
like manner, have completed Its rail.
way to the Little Sioux river :hen
the said Governor shall cause patents
to be issued to said company for all
the balance of the lands granted for
that purpose; Drouidod, that the said
railway company shall not convey or
encumber any of said lands prior To
the time 10 shall be entitled to patents
therefor, as provided i'm this act, and
this act shall not he 80 construed ns
to grant to said railway company, OF
any person or persons, wbomsoever,
any of said lands for any railroad
heretofore built.
SEC. Z. Alllands embraced I'm said
grant which were entered prior ia
January /, 1866, under the homestead
laws OF the United States, shall be
patented by the Governor of this
state to the parties by whom the
same We're so entered or to their heirs
or grantees, upon the payment by
them into the State Treasury, within
two years from the passage of this
act, of the price OF such lands nj
homesteads under the laws of the
United States, and the money so paid
for such lands shall be held for and
paid over to said railway company
when such lands would have been
earned by said company by the ex-
tension Of said road as required In
this act.
SEC. s. Tt is further expressly pro-
vided that IL said McGregor a Sioux
City Railway Company shall fail or
refuse to accept of this grant upon
the conditions hereby imposed, and
In time and manner as herein re-
quired the 43d Parallel Railway Com
pany may accept the grant, within
sixty days thereafter, and shall there
by become substituted to all the
rights, and subject TO all the condi-
tions, hereinbefore mentioned TO this
act In the place of the McGregor and
Sioux City Railroad Company.
wherever the same occurs therein.
SEC. o. The said McGregor and
Sioux CITY Railway Company shall
assent to and accept the provisions OF
this act by written instrument un-
der the seal OF such corporation, with
the signatures of the proper officers.
withen sixty days after the passage
of this act, which said acceptance
shall be filed In the Office of the Sec
retary OF State and be by him re-
corded In the book by him kept for
the recording of articles of associa-
tion. And, as further condition OF
this grant and at the time Of the ac-
ceptance hereinbefore required and
as part thereof, the said McGregor
d Sioux City Railway Company shall
procure and file with the Secretary
of State n full absolute, legal and el.
fectual waiver, release and surrender
OF all claim, right or interest or pre-
tended claim, right or interest of the
McGregor Western Railroad Com.
pany, Its SUCCESSORS or assigns In oI
to any Of the lands granted to this
State by act Of Congress- approved
May 18th, A. ID. 1864, which claim
right, or interest arises out OF or is on
account OF any railroad already con-
structed. Provided, That II the
Congress of the United States shall
make any additiqnal grant of land to
the State Of Iowa to Aid In the con
struction OF q railroad from McuregoI
or any intermediate point to point
In O'Brien county, and The said Nc.
Gregor 4 Sioux City Railway Com.
pany, their successors or assigns shall
comply with all the provisions ot
this act, and shall construct theii
railroad to O'Brien county in the
manner and time As provided In this
act then this release shall not operate
TO deprive said last named company
their Successors or assigns, of land In
said contein plated additional gram
for any railroad constructed on said
line between McGregor and O'Brier
county.
SEC. 10. This act being deemed d
Immediate Importance, shall take Of
feet and be In force from and after ia
publication In the Daily States Reg
istcr and IotOn Evening Statesman.
Approved March 81, 1858.
/ hereby certify that the foreguinf
Act took effect by publication, as re-
quired by Section 10 thereof, on The
Sd day Of April, a. ID. 1868.
ED WRIGHT,
6ec'y Of State.
CHAPTER SO.
AN ACT to establish and organize /
State Reform School for Juvenil,
offenders.