The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-05-14
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ED. WRIGHT, sec'y Of State.
CHAPTER5s.
AN ACT Making Grant Of Land to
the McGreg0r and Sioux City Rail-
way Company, or in case Of their
failure to accept the same to the AID
Parallel Company, and to execute the
trust conferred by Act of Congress,
entitled " An Act for Grant Of Land
to the State of Iowa. In Alternate
T. Railroad IN said State" approved
III. BE 1t enacted by the General A.
sensbly Of the State Of Zown, That all
the lands, rights, and privileges that
are granted to the State OF Iowa by an
act Of Congress, approved May 18th,
1854, for the purpose Of aiding in con-
struction ofa railroad from point at or
near the foot Of Main street, South Nc
Gregor, in said State, in q westerly d.
rection, by the most practicable route,
at or near the fortythird parallel OF
north latitude, until 1t shall interest the
proposed railroad running from Sioux
City to the Minnesota State line, In the
county Of O'Brien, in said State OF
Iowa are hereby granted and conferred
to and upon the McGregor and Sioux
City Railroad Company, a corporation
organized under the laws Of the State Of
Iowa; Provided, Said railroad compa-
ny accepting the provisions of this act
shall at all times be subject to such
rules, regulations, and rates Of tariff for
the transportation of freights and pas
sengers, as may from time to time be
enacted aud provided by the General
Assembly of the State Of Iowa, and
further subject to the conditions, limi-
tations, restrictions and provisions con-
tained in this act, and in the acts Of
Congress granting said lands to the
State of Iowa.
az. The grant Is made upon the ex-
press condition that said railway COM
pany shall have constructed and in
running order line of railway rs re-
quired by the provisions of the act of
Congress making said grant to the
State, and of this act, upon the most
practicable route, ON or as near rs prac-
ticable to the forty-third parallel of
north latitude, running within one mile
of New Hampton, in Chickasaw coun-
ty, and running from thence by way Of
and within one mile Of st. Charles
City and Algona, until it shall intersect
in the county of O'Brien, in this State,
the proposed railroad running from
Sioux City to the Minnesota State
line.
sThis grant is conferred OH the Me-
Gregor and Sioux City Railway Com
pany on the further express conditions
that in case said company shall fail to
have its railway built and completed in
good running order as far west as to
Chickasaw, in range ii in Chickasaw
county, by the lst day of September,
1869 or in case said company shall fail
to build and complete in good running
order at least twenty miles in addition
in each and every day Of December,
1875, then, and in case of any such fail.
ure, or on failure to comply with any of
the conditions Of this act, the State of
Iowa may at any time resume all rights
conferred by this act and resume all
rights to the lands hereby granted and
which may remain undisposed of to
said company OH account Of road &C.
tually built in compliance with the
terms of this act: prorieled that if in
any one year more road shall be built
than is required by this act it shall be
regarded and treated as road built the
next succeeding year or years.
"a. This railway shall be constructed
upon the usual guage of other first-class
railroads in this State, and shall be con-
structed and finished in a style and of a
quality equal to the average of her first
class western railroads.
as. The said company shall be enti-
tied to the benefit Of the selections of
land already made under the grant of
the State of Iowa, Of lands to aid in the
construction of a railroad from Nc
gregor westward on or near the
f"rty-third parallel, approved May Goth,
1864; and the line located under said
grant shall be binding only SO far as ap-
plicable to said sections.
s6. It is hereby made the duty Of
the Governor when ten consecutive
miles OF railroad has been built in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this act
to certify that fact to the Secretary of
the Interior, and SO on for each conse-
cutive ten miles thereof, as the same
shall be completed, and whenever the
said Nc Grcgor and Sioux City Railway
shall have completed In good running
order, according to the provisions OF
this act, its railway to point within
one mile Of st. Charles City, in Floyd
county, it shall be the duty Of the Gov
ernor of this State to cause patents to be
issued to said railway company for one
hundred and fifty sections of land I; and
when the said railway company shall
in like manner have completed its rail-
way to point within one mile of AL
gOna, in Kossuth county. then the Gov