New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-19

right of way is granted to said company to
the extent of two hundred feet in width on
each side of said railroad where it may pass
over the public lands; and there is also
hereby granted to said company grounds
for stations, buildings, workshops, wharves,
switches, side-trac1xs, turntables, water
stations, and such other structures as may
be necessary for said railroad, not exceed
ing forty acres of land at any one point.
SEC g. That for the purpose of aiding in
the construction of the railroad and tele-
graph line herein provided for, there is
hereby granted to the said Texas Pacific
Railroad Company its successors and
assigns, every alternate section OF public
land, not mineral, designated by odd
numbers, to the amount OF twenty
alternate sections per mile, on each
side of said railroad line, as such line may
be adopted by said company, through the
Territories of the United States, and ten
alternate sections of land per mile on each
side of said railroad in California, where
the same shall not have not haze been sold,
reserved or otherwise disposed of by the
United States, and to which presumption
or homestead claim may not have attached
at the time the line of said road is definitely
fixed. In case any of said lands shall have
been sold, reserved, occupied, or pre-
empted, or otherwise disposed of, other
lands shall be selected i'll lieu thereof by
said company, under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sec
lions, and designated by odd numbers, not
more than ten miles beyond the limits of
said alternate sections first above named,
and not including the reserved numbers.
Ii, in the too near approach OF the sad rail
road line to the boundary OF Mexico, the
number of sections of land to which the
company is entitled can not be selected i'm
mediately on the line of said railroad, or in
lieu of mineral lands excluded from this
grant, a like quantity of unoccupied and
unappropriated agricultural lands, i'll odd
numbered sections nearest the line OF said
railroad may be selected as above provided;
and the word mineral" where it occurs in
this act. shall not be. held to include iron or
coal: Provided, however, That no public
lands are hereby granted within the State
of California further than twenty miles on
each side of said road, except ito make up
deficiencies as aforesaid, and then not to
exceed twenty miles from the lands origin
ally granted. The term ''ship's channel"
as used in this bill, shall not be construed
as conveying any greater right to said
company TO the water front at San Diego
bay than it may acquire by gift, grant, pur-
chase or otherwise, except the right of way,
as herein granted; and provided further,
section to said company, which shall not be
sold or otherwise disposed of, as provided
in this act, within three years after the
of the entire road, shall be snb-
iect 70 settlement and presumption like
other lands, at a price to be fixed by and
paid to said company, not exceeding an
average of two dollars and fifty cents per
acre for all the lands herein granted.
SEC. 10. That when the route of said rail-
road and telegraph line shall pass through
the lands of private persons, or where it
may be necessary for said railroad company
to take any lands belonging to private per-
sons for any of the purposes herein men
toned necessary to said road, such right of
way through or title to such lands shall be
secured in accordance with the laws of the
State or Territory in which they may be
situated.
SEC. IL. That the Texas Pacific Railroad
Company snail have power and authority
to issue two kinds of bonds, secured by
mortgage, namely: first, construction bonds;
second, land bonds. Construction bonds
shall be secured by mortgage, first, on ali
Or any portion of the franchises, road-bed
Dr. track of said railroad, and all the appur-
tenanees thereto belonging, when con-
structed or in the course of construction,
from a point at or near Marshall, to ships
5nannOi, IL tno Day VI Gan DieSo- III tne
State of California, as aforesaid. Land
bonds shall be secured by mortgage, first,
on all or any portion of the lands hereby
granted in aid OF the construction of said
'ailroad as is provided for in this act;
second, on lands acquired by any arrange
nent or purchase or terms of consolidation
with any railroad company or companies to
whom grants of lands may have been made
'r may hereafter be made by any congress
'ional, State or territorial authority, or who
nay have purchased the same previous to
my such arrangement or consolidation:
that all the mortgages made and
,xeeuted by said railroad company shall be 4
lied and recorded in the Department of the
Interior, which shall be Sufficient evidence
If their legal execution, and shall confer all /
he rights and property of said COM
,any as therein expressed; and pro-
vided also, that the proceeds of
he sales of the aforesaid construction
md land bonds shall be applied only in the
construction. operation, and equipment of
he contemplated railroad line; And pro-
-ided further. That said mortgage shall in
10 wise impair or affect any lien existing
N the property of said company or COM
'anies at or before the time of such consoli-
lation.
Sec. u. That whenever the said COM
ANY SNAIL LILO ufSD dUO pdcn SUr-
eeding section OF twenty consecutive miles
f said railroad and put it in running order
S a'frst-class road in all its appointments.
shall be the duty of the Secretary OF the
Interior to cause patents to be issued con-
eying to sad company the number of Sec
ions of land opposite TO and coterminous
nth said completed road to which it shall |
e entitled for each section so completed. |
aid company, within two years after the |
assage of this act, shall designate the gen. |
raj route of its said road, as near as NAV |
e, and shall file map of the same in the |
department. OF the Interior; and when the |
zap is so filed, the Secretary of the In |
erior, Immediately thereafter, shall cause |
le lands within forty miles on each side |
said designated route within the Terri |
,ries, and twenty miles within the State of |
alifofnia, to be withdrawn from pre-.
nption, private entry, and sale; Provided, |
owever, That the provisions of the |
ct OF September, eighteen hundred |
ld forty-one, granting presumption
ghts, and the acts amendatory there
!, and of the act entitled IAN Act
secure homesteads to actual settlers on
le public domain" approved May twenty,
ghteen hundred and sixty-two, and the
nendments thereto, shall be, and the same
e hereby, extended TO all other lands of the
HAtCu AotubCo vi tuc IlIlt Vi sftltl TOdU WDen |
lrveyed, except those hereby granted to
i'd company.
SEC. Ii: That the president of the com
my shall annually, by the first day of July,
AXE report and file it with the Secretary
the Interior, which report shall be under
Ith, exhibiting the financial situation of
e company, the amount of money received
I'd expended, and the number of miles of
ad constructed each year, and further,
e names and residences of the stock
,lders, of the directors, and of all other
icers of the company. the amount of stock
bscribed, and the amount thereof actually
id in, a description of the lines of road
rveyed and fixed upon for construction.
e amount received from nassnnoers and |