The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-07-22

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consolidation shall be with amp COM
peting through line Of railroads 20 the
pacific ocean.
SsC. S. That the said company shall
have power and authority 10 make run
ming arrangements with any railroad
company or companies heretofore char
tered, or may hereafter be chartered BY
congressional, State, or territorial au-
thority also TO purchase lands, or TO
accept donations, or grant of lands, or
other property, from States or individ-
pals, for the purpose of aiding in carry
ing out the object Of this company.
SEQ. s. That the rights, lands, land
grants, franchises, privileges, and ap-
purtenances, and property of every de-
scription, belonging to each of the con-
solidated or purchased railroad COM
Pany or companies, as herein provided
shall vest in and become absolutely the
property OF the Texas Pacific Railroad
Company ProUided, That in all cou-
tracts made and entered into by said
company with any and all other rail-
road company or companies, to perfect
such aforesaid consolidation or pnr-
chase, the Indebtedness or other legal
obligations of said company or COM
panies shall be assumed by the said
Texas Pacific Railroad Company as may
be agreed upon, and no such consolida-z
tion or purchase shall impair any lien
which may exist on any OF the railroads
SO consolidated or purchased but said
company shall not assume the debts or
obligations of any company with which
it may consolidate or purchase as afore-
said, to an amount greater than the
cash value of the assets received from
the same.
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Railroad Company shall have power TO
make and enforce rules and by-laws
for the election of its officers and the
government and management Of the
business of the company and to do and
perform all needful and proper things
20 be done and performed to promote
the objects of the company hereby in
corporated, not inconsistent with the Z
laws of the United States and the pro-
visions of this charter.
SIC. 8. That the right of way through
the public lands be, and the same is
hereby, granted to the said COMPANY
for the construction ofthe said railroad
and telegraph line, and the right, power
and authority is hereby given TO said
company to take, from the public lands
adjacent to the line of said road, earth,
stone, timber, and other materials for
the construction thereof. Said 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;a there
is also hereby granted to said COMPANY
grounds for stations, buildings, work
shops, wharves, switches, sidetracks.
turntables, waterstasions, and euch
other structures as may be necessary
Tor said railroad, not exceeding forty
acres of land at any one point.
SEC. 3. That for the purpose of aids
ing In the construction Of the railroad
and telegraph line herein provided for,
there Is hereby granted to the said Tex
as Pacific Railroad Company, its sue
cessors 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 Uaited States, and ten alternate
sections of land per mile on each side
of said railroad in California, where
the same shall not have not have been
sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed OF
by the United States, and to which a
pre-emption 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-em pted. or
otherwise disposed Of other lands shall
be seiected ia lieu thereof by said COM
pany, under the direction Of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, in alternate Sec
tions, and designated by odd numbers,
not more than ten miles beyond the
limits of said alternate sections first
ebove named, and not including the
reserved numbers II, in the too near
approach of the said railroad line to the
boundary of Mexico, the number of sec-
tions of land to which the company is
entitled cannot be selected Immediately
on the line of said railroad, or in lieu
of mineral lands excluded from this
grant, q like quantity of unoccupied
and unappropriated agricultural lands,
in odd numbered sections nearest the
line Of said railroad may be selected as
above provided and the word mine
raj, where it occurs in this act, shall
not be held to include iron or coal
ProUided, howecer, That no public lands
are hereby granted within the State of
California further than twenty miles on
each side Of said road, except TO make
up deficiencies as aforesaid, and then
not to exceed twenty miles from the
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ships channel" as used in this bill,
shall not be construed as conveying
any greater right to said company to
the water front of San Diego bay than
it may acquire by gift, grant, purchase
or otherwise, except the right of wny,
as herein granted And proUided further
That all such lands, SO granted by this
section to said company, which shah
not be sold, or otherwise disposed of,
as provided in this act, within thres
years after the completion of the entire
road, shall be subject to settlement and
prescription like other lands, at price
20 be ixed by and paid to said company
not exceeding an average of two dollars
and City cents per acre for all the lands
herein granted.
SEc. 10. That when the route Of said
| railroad and telegraph line shall pass
through the lands of private persons, ,or
| where il may be necessary for said rail-
road company to take any lands be-
longing to private persons for any Of
/ the purposes herein mentioned neces-
sary to said road, such right of way
1 through or title to such lands shall be
secured in accordauce with the laws of
the State or Territory in which they
/ may be situated.
SEc. IL. That the Texas Pacific Rail-
road Company shall have power and
| authority to issue two kinds of bonds,
secured by mortgage, namely: 6rs.,
construction bonds; second land bonds.
Construction bonds shall be secured by
mortgages, first, on all or any portion
of the fra1chises, road-bed, or track OF
said railroad, and all the appurtenances
thereto belonging, when constructed or
in the course of construction, from .
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