Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-04-17

General Assembly.
Second That if the said Des Moines valIe.
Railroad Company shall fail to pay in fulani
discharge all the claims in the preceding par
agraph mentioned, by Or before The first day
Of July next, then it shall be the duty Of the
Register Of the State Land Office, and he IL
hereby required to proceed Immediately to sell
at his Office in Des Moines, for cash, TO the
highest bidder for not less than one dollar and
| fifty cents per acre, all the lands reserved by
| the preceding paragraph, or so much thereof
as shall prodHce the amount of money remain
ing due and unpaid on such claim; provided
that he shall first advertise the sale Of such
lands for not less than sixty days in four
different newspapers published one in Spring
vale, one in Fort Dodge, one in Des Moines
and one in Kcokuk, Iowa and prorided f.-h-
| er, that such lands shall be scll by him in
quantities not less than forty acres nor more
than one hundred ana sixty acres each, and
that the warrants issued by the State Auditor
on account Of the claims aforesaid shall be re-
ceived as cash in payment of lands bought at
such sale; aud proridsd further, that said CONF
pany shall have the right to pay said claims
at any time before such sale Of the lands.
Thnd-That upon such sale and PAYNE Mt
Of the purchase money, the Register shall is-
sue certificate to the purchaser, showing the
land purchased by him and the amount paid
Therefore and upon the presentation thereof
to the Governor he shall execute to the pur~
chaser deed in the name of the State of Iowa,
without warranty, conveying the lands So
purchased which the deed shall be etFec:usi
to pass all the right and title thereto now h,li
by the State, or which may hereafter be ac-
quired by the State from the United States;
and all moneys, The proceeds Of the sales as
aforesaid, shall be by the Register paid in
to the State Treasury for the use of the hold
ers of unpaid claims herein provided for;
which shall be paid in the order specified in
section chapter % of the laws of the 1lth
General Assembly, upon the production and
surrender Of TIE warrants therefor; and if
the re should be an amount insufficient to pay
the anne in full, then the same shall be paid
pro RITA and if there shall remain balance
after paying the same in full, such balar G.
shall b. paid over to said Railroad Compang
Fourth That the Register of the State Land
Office shcil, as soon as practicable and prior
to the first day of July next, select from the
lands embra, ed in the said act of Congress,
approved July IL, 1862, excluding the lands
reserved and da scribed in the first para rra pl,.
thereof one hunA ted thousand acres Of sail
land cf average Vi ne as near as p1act cable,
and embracing the ten sections sold 10 S. H
Taft and the lands ST selected, as well as the
proceeds of-any portion ti.ereof now sold, shall
be held aud applied exclusively for the con-
struction Of said railroad abo>. Des Moiucs
as now provided by law and shall be convey
ed and patented to said railroad com pany, or
to such person or persons as they shall direct,
only upon the completion of said railroai 4 into
the town Of TT. Doage, situated on the east side
Of the Des Moines river, within the year 1870
which said Co. agrees t5 do: and the evidence
of such completion shall be the running Of
trains into said town within the time specia-
ed ard none Of said lands shall be patented
until such completion, and the proceeds Of any.
portion tnereof sold Under provisions Of esis
ing Law Snail be at the same time paid over to
said railroad company. The said railroad
shall also have not less than sixty
five miles of said road from their present ter
minus graded during tie present and ensuing
calendar year.
Fvth-That as soon as satisfactory evidence
shall be furnfsnedso the Governor that all the
claims providnd for have been settled and
paid, or fully discharged, whether by The sale
Of the land, or By payments made By said rail
road company, lie shall execute and deliver to
the DesM sMoines Valley Railroad Company, CIR
to their assigns q deed or deeds in the name
Of the State OF Iowa, without warranty, for all
The lands embraced in the said act of Con-
yress, approved July 18th 1862, save and ex-
;ept the one hundred thousand acres herein
before reserved by on act passed prior hereto
by the State Of Iowa for the protection or ben
EFT Of settlers or persoss claiming komesteads
thereon, and the settlement made and approx
cd June 23th 1866, hy the Census Beard of the
State ofIowa with the DesM Moines Valley Rail-
road Company, aud the settlement with tho
United States therein referred to are hereby
ratified and confirmed.
SEC. 9. In case Of noncompliance by said
railroad company, with the foregoing condi-
tons by it 10 be performed, then, without fur
ther legislation, this act shall have the force
and effect Of an act Of resumption and al the
rights Of said company in and to said lands
or any part thereof, heretofore or hereby gran
ted to said company, and not at tie time OF
such failure actually conveyed by the state
to said company, shall be forfeited to and re-
vested in the State Of Iowa, as full as II the
grant thereof had never been mado BY :Aa
State.
SEC. 4. This act shall BE- accepted by the
said railroad company, and evidenced by the
signature Of the President and Secretary of
said company, with the corporate seal thereof,
within thirty days from the approval of this
act, but the non-accepiance by the said Des-
Moines Valley Railroad Company Of the act
shall not prevent all the foregoing provisions
thereof from having the same operation anl
effect as If the same had been accepted by