North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-05-06

bracing the ten sections sold to S. H. Taft;
and the lands 80 selected, as we'll as the
proceeds of any portion thereof now sold,
shall be held and applied exclusively for
the construction of said railroad above
Des Moines as now provided by law and
shall be conveyed and patented to said
railroad company, or 70 such person or
persons rs they shall direct, only upon
the completion Of said railroad into the
town OF Ft Dodge, situated on the east side
of the Des Moines river, within the year
1870 which said Co. agrees to do; and
the evidence of such completion shall be
the running Of trains into said town within
the time specified. and none of said lands
shall be patented until such completion,
and the proceeds of any portion thereof
sold under provisions Of existing laws
shall be at the same time paid over to said
railroad company. The said railroad COM
pany shall also have not less than sixty
FIVE miles of said road from their present
terminus graded during the present and
ensuing calendar year.
EitM-That as soon as satisfactory cvi-
dence shall be furnished to the Governor
that all the claims herein provided for
have been settled and paid. or fully dis
charged, whether by the sale of the lands,
or by payments made by said railroad com
pany, he shall execute and deliver to the
Des Moines Valley Railroad Company, or
to their assigns deed or deeds in the
name Of the State Of Iowa, without war
ranty. for ali the lands embraced in the
said act of Congress, approved July II,
1862, save and except the one hundred
Thousand acres hereinbetore reserved for
the construction of said road above the
city of Des Moines to Fort Dodge and ex
cept also any lands embraced in said grant
which may have te,n reserved by an act
passed prior thereto 10y the Scate of Iowa
for the protection or benefit OF settlers or
persons claiming homcsteads thereon and
the settlement made and approved June
10Th, 1861, by the Census Board of the
State of Iowa with the Des moines Valley
Railroad Company and the settlement
with the United States therein relerrd to
arc hereby ratified and confirmed.
| Sec. 2. In case of noncompliance by
said railroad company, with the foregoing
conditions by it to be performed, then,
without further legislation, this act shall
have the force and effect Of an act of re-
sumption and all rights of said company
in and to said lands or any part thereof,
heretofore or hereby granted to said COM
pany. and not at the time of such failure
actually conveyed by the State to said
company, shall be forfeited to and revested
in the State of Iowa, as full as if the grant
thereof had never been made by the State.
Sec. 3. This act shall be accepted by
the said railroad compony, and evidenced
by the signature of the President and Secrc-
tary of said company, with the corporate
seal thereof, within thirty days from the
approval of this act, but the non-accept-
ance by the said Des Moincs Valley Rail
road Company Of the act shall not prevent
all the foregoing provisions thereof from
having the same operation and effect as II
the same had been accepted by said Com
pany. The company accepting the proyl-
sions Of this act shall at all times be sub,
Iject to such rules, regulations and rates OF
tariff for transportation of freight and pas
sencers as may from time to time be enact
ed BY the General Assembly o. the State OF
Iowa.
SEC. 1. So much Of section three OF
chapter los, of the laws and provisions
relating thereto, including section five OF
said chapter, as requires the lands herein
be classified or graded by commissioners
and all other acts and parts of acts incon'
sistent with this act are hereby repealed
Sec. 5. This act shall be in force and
have effect from and after its publication
in the State Register and Evening States
man, papers published in Des Moines,
Iowa.
Approved March 81. 1868.
| hereby certify that the foregoing Act
took effect by publication, as required iy
Section thereof, on the I'd day Of April,
A. d. 1868.
ED WRIGHT, Secy of State.
CHAPTER So.
AN ACT making Grant of Land to the
McGresor and Sioux City Railway Com
pany, or in case of their failure to ac,
cept the same, to the 43d Parallel Com
pany, and to execute the Trust confer
red by Act of Congress entitled AN
! Act for a Grant of Land to the State Of
Iowa, in Alternate Sections, to aid in
the Construction of Railroad in said
State" approved May 18th, 1864.
SECTION /. BE it enacted by the Genera
assembly Of The State Of Io,ca, That al
the lands, rights, and privileges that are
granted in the State of Iowa by an act ol
Con -ress. approved May 18th, 1864, fol
the purpose of aiding in the construction
of a railroad from point at or near the
foot of Main street, South McGregor, il
said State, in westerly direction, by tht
most prxticablc route, at or near the forty
third parallel of north latitude, until i
shall intersect the proposed railroad run
ming from Sioux City to the Minnesota
State line, in the county of O'Brien, il
the said State Of Iowa, are hereby granted
and conferred to and upon the McCregol
& Sioux City Railway Company, corpor
alton organized under the laws OF tht
State of Iowar P-ocided, Said railroad
company accepting the provisions of this
act shall at all times be subject to such
rules. regulations. and rates Of tariff FOL
the transportation of freights and passen
gers, as may from time to time be enuctec
and provided for by the General Assembl.
Of the State of Iowa, and further sahjec
to the conditions, limitations, constructions
and provisions contained in this act, ant
in the acts of Congress granting said land
to the State Of Iowa.
SEC. 2. This grant is made upon thu
express condition that said railway com
pany shall have constructed and in run
ming order line of railway as required
by the provisions Of the act Of Congress
making said grant to the State, and of this
act, upon the most practicable route, on o1
as near as practicable to the forty-thire
parallel of north latitude, running within
one mile of New Hampton, in ChickasaN
county, and running from thence by wa,
of and within one mile Of st. Charlie
City, Mason. City and Algona, until j
shall intersect, in the county Of o Brien
in this State, the proposed railroad run
min. from Sioux City to the Minnesoti