The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1868-04-17

patents, rs provided in this act and
this act shall not be so construed as
to grant to said railway company,
or any person or persons, whomso-
ever, any of said lands for any rail-
road heretofore built.
SEC, 7. All lands embraced in
said grant which were entered prior
to January /, 1866. under the home
stead laws of the United States,
shall be patented by the Governor
of this state to the parties by whom
the same were 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
as HON csteads under the laws tf the
United States, and the money SO
paid for such lands shall be held for
and paid over to said railway COM
pany when such lands would have
been carued by said company by the
extension Of said road as required
by this act. sg zsZa
sec s.. It is further expressly pro-
vidcd that if said Nc Gregor l.
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
required the 43d Parallel railway
company may accept this grant,
within sixty days thereafter. and
shall thereby become substituted to
all the rights, and subject to all the
conditions, herein before mentioned
to the same extent as if said 43d
Parallel railway company had been
mentioned in this act in the place
Of the Nc Gregor aud Sioux City
rsilroad company, wherever the same
occurs therein. tf p .5A&
sec 8. The said Nc Gregor and
Sioux City railway company shall
assent to and accept the provisions
of this act by a written instrument
under the seal Of such corporation,
with the signatures Of the proper
officers, within sixty days after the
passage of this act, which said ac-
ceptances hall be filed in the Office of
the Secretary of state and be by
him recorded in the book by him
kept for the recording Of articles #
association. And as further condi-
tion of this grant and at the time #
the acceptance hcreinbefore requir-
cd and as u part thereof, the said
Nc Gregor 4 Sioux City railway
company shall procure and file with
the secretary ofstatc, a full absolute
legal and cffectual waiver, release
and surrender Of all claim, right or
interest or pretended claim right or
interest of the Nc Grcgor western
railroad company, its successors or
assigns in or to any of the lands
granted to this state by act of Con-
gress approved May 18th A. D, 1864
which claim, right, er interest arises
out of or is on account Of any rail
road already constructed, Provided,
That if the congress Of the United
States shall make any additional
grant of land to the state Of Iowa
to aid in the construction Of . rail-
road from Nc Gregor or any inter-
ediatc point 20 & point in O'Bricn
county, and the said McGrcgor and
Sioux City Railway Company their
successors or assigns shall comply
with all the provisions of this act,
and shall construct their railroad to
O'Brien county in the manner and
time as provided in this act then
this release shall not operate to de-
priye said last named company,
their succ cssors or assigns, of land
in said contemplated additional
grant for any railroad constructed
on said line between Mcdrcgor and
O'Bricn county.
SEC, 10. This net being deemed
Of immediate Importance shall take
effect aud be in force from and after
Republication in the daily State
Register, aud Iowa Evening States
man. tf.F "
Approved March 81, 1865.
l hereby certify that the forego-
ing act took effect by publication,
as required in section IL thereof. on
the Sd day Of April, A. D. 1868.
Ed WRIGHT, scc'y Of state.