The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-07-09

I the construction of Is road and to secure the
 same by mortgage, and for other purposes
 Resolved by the Senate and House of Re- presentatives of the United States of Amer ica in Congress assembled. That the Northern Pacific Railroad Company be, and hereby is, authorized to issue it's bonds to aid iii the con struction and equipment of it's road, and to secure the same by mortgage on it's property and rights ofprlperty ofaII kinds and descrip
 tions, real, personal and mixed, including it's franchise as a corporation; and, as proof and notice of it's lesa execution and efectual de- i, livery said mortgage shall be filed and record d in the office of the Secretary of the Interior; and also to locate and construct, under the pro isions aud with the privileges, grants, and duties provided fer in it's act of incorporation, it IT al n road to soma point on Puget Sound, via the valley of the Columbia River. with the righ to locate and construct its bra nch from some con venient point on it's main trunk line acroas the Cascade Mountain to Puget Sound; and in the event of there not being in any State or I Ter ritOry in which said main lire or branch ma be located, at the time of the final location the, GO f, the amount of lands per mile granted by c, ,uA Arress to said company, within the limits pres, ;riAed by it's character, then said company shall be entitled, under the directions of th Secretary of the Interior, to receive 30 ID, my sections of land belong ;np to tbe United States, and designated by odd numbers, in such State or Territory within ten miles olr each side of side road beyond the limits pl esaribed in said charter as will make up sa ch deficiency on said main line or branch, except mineral and other lands as excepte d in the charter Of said company of eightee hundred and sixty four. to the amount of the lands that have | been granted, sold, res, erved, occupied by homestead settlers, pre-en lpted, or otherwise disposed of subsequent-to he passage ot the act of July two eighteen It hired and sixty four. And that twenty five miles ot sad main liue between its weater ternnus and the city of Portland, in the S5, ate of Oregon, shall be completed by the first day of Jan nary, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and seventy two, and forty miles of l he remain ing portion thereof each year there atter' untl the whole shall be completed betW cen slld
 points: Pr0Uided That ell lands hereby
 granted to said company which shall not o9
 sold or disposed of or remain subject 10 the mortgage by this act authorized, at the ex-
 piration of five years after the competit'n of
 the entire road, shall be subject to settlen lent
 and preSemption like other lands at a price to
 be paid to said company rot exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre. and if the mortgage hereby, authorized shall at any time . be enforced by foreclosure or other legan pro- , ceedng or the mortgaged lands hereby grant l ed, or any of them, be sold by the trustees to whom such mortgage may be executed, either } at it's maturity or for any failure or default ot said company under the terms thereof, such
 lands shall be sold at public sale, at places ! within the States and IeyritJries in which they shall be situate, after not loss than sixty days previous notice, in single sections or subdivi- 5 sions thereof, to the highest and best bidder : ProUided .fttrther, That in the construction l of the said railroad, American iron or steel
 only shall be used, the same to be manufacture
 ed from American o,as exclusively.
 SEC. 2 And bs 1t further resolved, That Con,
 gress may at any time alter or amend this
 joint resolution, having due regard to the
 rights of said company, and any other par
 ties.
 Approved, May 3l, 1870.
 AN ACT limiting the appoiu tTnent of certain of-