Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-05-01
CEDAR FALLS, IOWA. FRIDAY, MAY /, 1865.

practicable and prior to the first day
of July next, select from the landl
embraced in the said act of Congress,
approved July IL, 1852, Including th,
lands reserved and described in til,
| first paragraph hereof, one hundred
thousand acres OF said land of aver
ago value as near'as practicable, ant
embracing the ten sections sold to s.
III. Taft, and the lands 90 selected, a,
well as. the proceeds of any portion
thereof now sold, shall be held ant
applied exclusively fol, the construc
ticn Of said railroad above DE.
Moines as now provided by law, ane
shall be conveyed and patented K
said railroad company, or to such per
son or persons rs they shall direct
only upon the completion of saic
railroad into the town Of TT. Dodge
situated on the east side OF the Det
Moines river, within the year 1870
which said Company 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 pat.
ented until such completion, and the
proceeds of any portion thereof sold
under provisions of existing law
shall be at the same time paid over
to said railroad company. The said
railroad company shall also have not
less than sixty-five miles of said road
from their present terminus graded
during the present aud ensuing cal.
endar year.
EUfh-That ms soon as satisfactory
evidence shall be furnished to the
Governor that all the claims herein
provided for have been settled and
paid, or fully discharged, whether by
the sale of the land, or by payments
made by said railroad company, he
shall execute and deliver to the Dos
Moines Valle6 Railroad Company, or
to their assigns, decd or deeds In
the name of the State of Iowa, with
out warranty, for all the lands em-
braced In the said act of Congress,
approved July IL, 1882, save and ex-
eept the one hundred thousand acres
hereinbefore reserved for the con-
struction OF said road above the city
of Des Moines TO Ft. Dodge; and ex-
cept also any lands embraced in said
grant which may have been reserved
by any act passed prior hereto by the
State of Iowa for the protection or
benefit of settlers or persons claiming
homesteads thereon; and the settle
ment made and approved June Goth,
1855, by the Census Board of tile
State of Iowa with the Des Moincs
Valley Railroad Company, and the
settlement with the United States
therein referred to are hereby ratified
and confirmed.
Sec. 2. In case of noncompliance
by said railroad company, with the
foregoing conditions by It to be per-
formed, then, without further legis-
lation, this act shall have the force
and effect of an act of resumption,
and all rights of said company In and
to said lands or any part thereof,
heretofore or hereby granted to said
company, and not at the time of such
failure actually conveyed by the state
TO said company, shalt be forfeited
to and revested in the State of Iowa,
as full as Ii the grant thereof had
never been made by the State.
Srec. 3. This act shall be accepted
by the said railroad company, and
evidenced by the signature OF the
President and Secretary of said COM
pany, with the corporate seal thereof
within thirty days from the approval
of this act, but the non n-acceptance
by the said Des Moines Valley Rail.
road Company of the act shall not
prevent all the foregoing provisions
thereof from having the same opera.
ton mld effect as III the same had
been accepted by said company. The
company accepting the provisions OF
this act shall at all times be subject
to such rules, regulations and rates oi
tariff for transportation of freight
and passengers as may from time To
time be enacted by the General AS
sembly OF the State of Iowa.
SEC. A. So much of section three
of chapter l0S, of the laws of the
Tenth General Assembly, and OF 9TH
or laws aud provisions relating there
to, including section five Of said chap.
ter, as requires the lands hereinbefore
referred TO, or any part thereof, 10 be
classified or graded by commission
ers, and all other acts and parts OF
acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.
SEC. IS This act shall be i'm force
after Its publication In the Dail,
State Register and Eueniag .States-
man, newspapers published at Des
Moines.
Approved March 3lst, 1868.
l hereby certify that the foregoing
Act took effect by publication, as re-
quired IN Seton 5 thereof, ON the
Ind day Of April, A. ID. 1868.
ED WRIGHT,
Sec'y of State.