New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-17

sect said Texas Pacific railroad, shall nave
right to connect with that line; that no
discrimination as regards charges for freight
or passengers, or in any other matter, shall
be made by said Texas Pacific Railroad
Company against any OF the said
connecting roads; but that the same
| charges per mile as to passengers, and per
ton per mile as to freight, passing from the
said Texas Pacific railroad over any OF said
connecting roads, or passing from any OF
| said connecting roads over any part OF SAID
Texas Pacific railroad, shall be made by
said company as they make for freight ana
passengers over their own road; Provided,
also, That said connecting roads shall recl-
| procate said right OF connection ana equal
| ity of charges with said Texas Pacific rail-
road; And provided further, That the rates
charged for carrying passengers and freight,
per mile, shall not exceed the prices which
may be fixed by Congress for carrying pas
sengers and freight on the Union Pacific
and Central Pacific railroads.
SEC. Is. That said road shall be construct
| ed of iron or steel rails manufactured from
| American ore, except such as. may have
heretofore been contracted for by any rail-
road company which may be purchased or
consolidated with by the company hereby
| incorporated as provided by this act.
SEC. II. That the said Texas Pacific Rail
road Company shall commence the construc-
ton of its road simultaneously at San Diego,
in the State Of California and from point
at or near Marshall, Texas, as hereinbefore
| described, and so prosecute the same as TO
have at least fifty consecutive miles OF
railroad from each of said points COM
plete and in running order within two
years after the passage OF this act;
| and to SO continue to construct each year
thereafter a sufficient number of miles to
secure the completion of the whole line
from the aforesaid point on the eastern
| boundary of the State OF Texas TO the bay
of San Diego in the State of California, as
| aforesaid, within ten years after the passage
! of this act: and upon failure to so complete
| it, Congress may adopt such measures as it
| may deem necessary anu proper to secure
its speedy completion.
SEC. Is. That the President of the United
States, upon the completion OF the first sec
ton of twenty miles shall appoint one COM
missioner, whose duty it shall be to examine
the various sections of twenty miles as they
shall be completed, and report thereon TO
him in writing; and if, from such report,
he be satisfied that said company has fully
completed each section of its road, as in this
act provided, he shall direct the Secretary
of the Interior to issue patents TO said com
pany for the lands it is entitled 10 under
this act as fast as each section of said road
| is completed.
SEC 10. That the Texas Pacific
Railroad Company shall be, and it
is hereby, declared to be a military
and post road; and for the purpose of
insuring the carrying the mails, troops, mu-
nitions of war, supplies and stores OF the
! United States, no act of the company nor
any law of any State or Territory shall i'm
pede, delay or prevent the said company
from performing its obligations to the
United States in that regard: provided, that
said road shall be subject to the use OF the
United States for postal, military and all
| other governmental services at fair and rea-
sonable rates of compensation. not to exceed
the price paid by private parties for the same
kind of service, and the government shall
| at all times have the preference IN the use
| of the same for the purpose aforesaid.
SEC. 20. That il shall not be lawful for
any of the directors, either in their indi-
| vidual capacity or as members of an incOr-
| porated or Joint stock company, to make
any contracts or agreements with the said
| Texas Pacific Railroad Company for the
construction, equipment or running OF its
road. or to have any interest therein; and
| all such contracts or agreements are hereby
declared null and void, and all money or
property received under such contracts or
agreements may be recovered back for the
benefit of the company by any stakeholder.
SEC. 81. That any railroad company whose
| route lies across the route of the Texas
| Pacific railroad may cross the same, and for
| the purpose of crossing shall have the right
to acquire at the double minimum price all
| lands, whether of the United States or
granted by this act, which shall be needed
for a right of way two hundred feet wide
| through said lands, and for depots, stations,
| side-tracks, and other needful purposes, not
exceeding for such purposes forty acres at
| any one. station.
SEC -. That the New Orleans, Ba-on
Rouge aud Vicksburg Railroad Company.
| chartered by the State OF Louisiana, shall
have the right TO connect by the most eligi-
BILE route to be selected by said company
| with the said Texas Pacific railroad at its
| eastern terminus, and shall have the right
of way through the public land to the same
extent granted hereby to the said Texas
Pacific Railroad Company; and in aid of its
construction from New Orleans to Baton
| Rouge, thence by the way of Alexandria, in
said State, to connect with the said Texas
Pacific Railroad Company at its eastern
terminus, there is hereby granted to said
| company, its successors and assigns, the
| same number of alternate sections of public
lands per mile, IN the State of Louisiana, as
| are ythis act granted in the State of Cali
fornia, TO said Texas Pacific Railroad
Company; and said lands shall be with
| drawn from market, selected and patents
| issued therefor, and opened for settlement
| in the same manner and time as is provided
for and required from said Texas Pacific
| Railroad Company, within said State OF
| California; Provided, That said company
shall complete the whole of said road within
| five years from the passage Of this act.
SEC. %. That for the purpose OF connect
| ing the Texas Pacific railroad with the city
| of San Francisco, the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company of California is hereby au-
| +bori1ad fsuhinct IN the laws of California \
| to construct line of railroad from point
| at or near Tehaehapa Pass, by way of Los
| Angeles, to the Texas Pacific railroad at or
| near the Colorado river, with the same
! rights, grants and privileges, and subject
| to the same limitations, restrictions. and
| conditions as were granted TO said Southern
| Pacific Railroad Company of California, by
the act of July twenty-seven, eighteen
| hundred and sixty-six: Provided, however,
That this section shall in no way affect or
/ impair the rights, present or prospective OF
| the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company
or any other railroad company.
! Approved March 3, 1871.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. Gil
| AN ACT. confirming the title to certain
lands.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House of
! Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
| title to the land certified to the State of
Iowa by the Commissioner of the General
Land Office of the United States, under an
act of Congress entitled IAN act confirming
/ land claim in the State of Iowa, and for
| other purposes" approved July twelve,
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in ae-
cordance with the adjustment made by the
| authorized agent of the State of Iowa and
| the Commissioner of the General Land Of
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