The Montana post., 1868-09-25
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
PASSED BY THE
FOI'tieth Congress.
OFFICIAL.
AN ACT relative to fling reports OF rail
road companies.
TPUBLIC-No. 5I.1

AN ACT relative to fling reports OF rail
road companies.
BE it enacted by tie Senate and House
cT Representatives Of tie United States
Of -ADieTIcd tR Congress assembled, That
the reports required To be made to the
Secretary of the Treasury on or before
the hrst day ofJuly of each year by the
corporations created by or entitled to
subsidies under the provisions of an act
entitled An act to aid in the construc
tion of railroad and telegraph line
from the Missouri river to the Pacific
ocean, and to secure TO the government
the use OF the same for postal, military,
and other purposes" approved July first,
eighteen hundred and sixty two and the
acts supplemental 10 and amendatory
thereof, shall hereafter be made TO the
Secretary of the Interior. on or before
the first day of October of each year
Said reports shall furnish full and spe~
cific information upon the several points
mentioned in the twentieth section of the
said act OF eighteen hundred and sixty
two, and shall be verified as therein pre-
scribed, and on failure 10 make the sane
as herein required, the issue of bonds OF
patents TO the company in default shall
be suspended until the requirements of
this act shall be complied with by such
company. And the reports hitherto
made to the Secretary of the Treasury
under the said act of July first, eighteen
hundred aud sixty-two, shall be trans
terrsd and delivered by him to the Sec
rotary of the Interior 10 be flied by him
SEC. ,. Ind be It further eHdcted, That
the corporations created by the provis-
ions of the acts of Congress approved
July second, eighteen hundred and sixty
four, and July Jwenty-seventh, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, and known as
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Com
pany, and the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company, shall make reports 20 the Sec
retary of the Interior on or before the
first of October of each year, as are re-
quired to be made by the Union Pacific
Railroad and branches, under the pro~
visions of the first section of this act,
and on failure so to do, shall be subject
to the like suspension.
SEC. 3. AHd be Il further enacted, That
the reports required from the commis-
sioners appointed TO examine and re-
port in relation to the road of any Of the
corporations whereto reference is made
in this act, shall be addressed to and
filed in the Department # the Interior;
and all such reports heretofore made
shall be transferred to and filed in said
Department of the Interior; and so much
of any and all acts as requires any re-
ports from such companies, or any Off
GERS thereof, TO be made to the Secretary
of the Treasury, is hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. Ind BE- it JUrtteP enacted, That,
in addition to the eight subjects referred
TO in section twenty of the act of July,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to be
reported upon. there shall also be fur
nished annually to the Secretary of the
Interior all reports of engineers, super-
intendents, or other officers who make
annually reports to any of said railroad
companies.
Approved, June %, 1868.