Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-05-22
Ed WRIGHT, sse'y Of State.
CHAPTER IS.

AN ACT Making Grant Of Land to the
McGregor and sioux City RAalroad Com>
pany, or IN case Ct their failure to accept
the same to the 43d Parallel Company,
and TO execste the trust conferred BY Act
sf Congress entitled i" An &C. for Csant
OF Land 10 the State of Iowa, in Alternate
Sections. to aid ia the Construction Of .
Railroad in said State, approved Nay IL,
1854.
SECTION /. Be it enacted ty the General
Assenl5ly cf the STATE II lora, That oil the
lands, rights, and privileges that are grant.
ed to the State Of Iowa by al &C. Of Con-
gress, approved May 18th, 1864, for he pur-
pose Of aiding in the construction of . rails
road from point 81 or near the foot of Main
street, South McGregor, in said State, in :
westerly direction, BY the most practicable
route, at or near the forty, third parallel Of
north latitude, until j. -Lls.l in.ersect the pro.
posed railroad running from Sioux City TO
the Minnesota State line, in the county Of
U'Brien, in said State Of Iowa, are hereby
granted and conferred to and upon the Me-
Gregor / Sioux Guy Railway Company, .
corporation organized under the laws OF the
State Of Iowa Pforidsd, Said railroad com.
pany accepting The provisions Of this act
shall st Al times be subject 10 sush rules,
regulations, and rates of tariff for the trans>
portation Of freights and passen gers, as may
from time to time be enacted and provided
for By the General Assembly Of the State Of
Iowa, and further subject 70 the conditions,
limitations, restrictions and provisions con,
tanned in this act, aud in the Acts Of Com
gress granting said lands 10 the State Of
Iowa.
SEC. This gran. is made upon the ex>
press condition that said railroad company
shall have constructed and in running order
line Of railway a. required by the pro.is-
iors Of the act of Congress making said
grant to the State, aEd Of this act, upon the
most practicable route, On or as near al
practicable to the forty third pssllel Of north
Latitude, ruaning within one mile Of New
Hampton, Chicxasaw county, and running
from thence BY way Of aud within one mile
Of St. Charles City, Mason City and Algona,
until il shall inserseet, in the county OF
O'Brien, 10 this State, the proposed railroad
running from Sioux City to the Minnesota
State line.
SEc. 3. This grant is conferred on the
McGregor and Sioux City Railway Compa.
ny On the further express conditions that in
case said company shall fail 70 have its rail
war built and completed in good running or
deras far west as to Chickasaw, in range IL
in Chickasaw county, by the first day Of Sep
tsmber, 1869 or ia case said company shall
fail to build and complete in good running
order at least twenty miles in addition ia
each and every year thereafter and the whole
Of said railroad by the first day Of Decem,
ts.r hon N ~ a,.nh "a l..e
or ON failure to comply with any Of the con-
ditions of this act, the State Of lows may al
any time resume all rights cor ferred BY this
act and resume al rights to the lands here.
BY granted and which may remain andispo.
ssd Of TO said company on account of road
actually built in com piianee with the termi
Of this act pyocided that If in any one yeal
more road shall be built than 10 required By
this act it shall be regarded and treated a
road built the next succe eding year o.
years.
SEc. 4. This railway shall BE- construct,
ed upon the usual gauge OF other 6rst. elias,
railroads in this State, and shall be con-
structed and finished in style and Of quail
isy equal 10 the average Of other fast class
western railroads.
Sxc. s. The eaid company shall be enti-
tied 70 the benefit Of the selections Of lsnd
already nade.nnd the grant 70 the State Of
lows. or lands 70 aid IN the construction o.
. railroad from MeGreeos westward on or
near the fortythird paral;el, approved Asy
18th, 1864; and the line located under said
grant shall b. bindiag only 20 far - spplic,
able to said selections. ssts gassT 49,
SIC. 6. Itis hereby mde the day el
The Governor when ten consecutive milss OF
railroad has been bdtf in accordance with
the provisions Of thsnct, 10 certify that faci
10 lie Se,reixrv Of the Interior, and 90 es
or e. Il, consecutive ten miles thereof. ss the