The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-02-23

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Y. B NITCHRLL, EDITOR.
Thursday. February 23, 1877
THE BILL FOR THE DIVISION OF
THE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT
LANDS.
Y On Friday, after a rather lively dis
eussion, in which Senators Wait ani
Buel were the leading participants, q
bill for the division of the Five Hun
dred Thousand Acres Of Internal I'm.
provemsnt Lands among new hoes o.
railzoad, passed the Senate BY vote o.
IL toS
Section one declares that these lands
shall be known a Minnesota internal
Improvement Lands, and that they
shall be set apart for the purposes iudl.
Gated in this act. IF.
Section two grants to the St. Paul
and Dubuque Railroad Co., for = branch
from tho Iowa State line via Austin,
Brownsville and Mantorville to Pine
Island, $4,000 acres of these lands.
Section three grants the Southern
Minnesota Railroad Co., for 4 branch
line from Fountain via Chat6eld, Ma.
rion, Rochester and Oronoco, to Pine
Island, 10000 acres also for a branch
line from Fountain south via Preston
to the Iowa line, 10000 acres.
Section four grants to the St. Paul
l. Dubuque and the Southern Minneso.
t. Railroad Companies jointly, for q
road from Pine Island via Hadsr, and
through Dakota count, to St. Paul,
$4,000 acres, the land to go to the com.
pany which first completes its road to
Pine Island, the one beginning At Au..
tin and tho other at Fountain.
Section five grants to the Lake Pep
in and Omaha Railroad Co., for a road
from Wabashs v,a Plainview, Elgin,
Rochester, high Forest and Brownsville
to the Iowa line, $4,000 acres.
Section Dix grants to tho Minnesot.
and Northwestern Railroad Co., for ,
road from Mankato v;a New Ulm and
Redwood Falls to Big Stone Lake, &c..
600 acres.
Section seven grants to the Winona
; Homer, D1esbaeh and LaCrescent
Railroad Co, for q road from Winon,
via Homer and Dresbach to Lac Crescent
$4,000 ssres.
Section eight grants to the southern
Minnesota Railroad Co., for = branch
through Fairmount to the south line Of
tho State, $4,000 acres.
Section nine IL a follows:
e1o. Q. There are hereby granted to the
soid Ai1nesota and North western Railroad
Company, 10 aid in tho construction Of ,
branch from ito main line ct tho city Of
Aankaeo, OF some point between Mankate
and the village Of Judson in Blue Earth
county, and crossing the Minnesota rive,
betWeen said points, thence Viz the village,
Of Hutchinson, 0reenlesf, Litchdeld and
Forrest City, and - near the south bend Of
the Sank river - engineering will admit Of
: thence 70 81. Cloud, and the Sank Rapids,
0eventy-seven thousand five hundred acres
Of said Minnesota improvement lands
Provi5ed, That said line Of ro,d shall be
surveyed and located before the first day Of
December, 1871, and twenty miles thereof
completed before the first day Of January,
: A. D. 1878; and Whenever, and ~ often =.
said 4innesota & Northwestern Compsnv
yshau construct and complete ten oouseou.
tive miles Of ito said railroad, In aid o.
which this grant applies, 20 q to admit o.
running trains thereon, said oompanv shsl
b entitled to al the rights sni benefit.
eavsn % other companies in section / O.
this act, except % to the number Of acre,
1of completed road, and the Governor o.
the STATE on receiving satisfactory evidence
thereof, shall execute and deliver TO 90 Il
company, under seal Of tho State, deed Q,
deeds In fee simple Of nix thousand acre,
$ Of the said Minnesota Internal Improve
ment Lands, parcel Of the lands by this 20,
ct apart to aid In the construction Of thi.
road, - provided in TING act, until suot
railroad shall be completed from Mankate
20 sc. Cloud. And whenever such railroad
, shall b % completed from Msnkato to st.
= Cloud, with cars running over the same
then tho said Governor shall In like man
ner execute and deliver to said Minnesota
3 Northwsstern Railroad Company deco
Of deeds ofsn remaining lands to which
said company shsll be entitled under tn,
provisions Of this oct.
= Section ten grants to the Minpeapo
liz and st. Louis Railway Co., for .
road from Minneapolis ola W.terville
Waseos and Albert Lea to tho south
hne Of tho State, $4,000 acres; q do.
duetion Of 10000 acres being made 70,
. branch from tho Main Line Of the St
Paul aud Pacific railroad 70 Watsrtown
Section eleven specifies the require
msnts Of tho deduction.
Section twelve u ~ follows:
eso. IL. There ars hereby granted t,
The said Minnesota and Northwestern Rail
1ead Company, 70 cid in the continuation
ana construction Of that portion Of il
branch line from st. Cloud, or from
he point on the sa,d Sank River, whsr,
The branch line Of said Minnesota ant
Northwestern Railroad company touchsl
ssid Sank river, running from Mankato {,
81. Cloud, through 5tsarns county, by tn,
Wy Of the Sank Valley, via Sank Cent?,
and Alexandria, to the North line Of tn,
State, fefty.avs thousand acres Of ssit
At.assots Internal improvement lands.
Section thirteen provides that tn,
order Of The grants shall not give an,
sompasy priority Of rights.
Section fourteen requires tho Stat
Land Commissiouer to keep a book o
.sooeds in which shall be recorded a De
saiption Of the lands selected tn
hsts appostioned BY the board Of com
uisiouezs to each Of the aforementione'
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