Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-06-10

direct the Secretary OF the Interior to issus
pstents 10 said company for the lands it is en-.
titled TO under this act A fat "a each sactior
OF said road Is completed.
sEc. ~: That the Texas Pacific Railroad Com.
Iany shall be, and IL Is hereby, declared to be 4
imihtsry and post road; and for the purpose OF
insuling the carrying Of the mails, troops, muni-
mons OF war, supplies, and stores of the United
states, no act of the company nor any law of
any Stste or Territory shall impede, delay, or
prevent the said company from performing its
Procided, That said road shall be subject 70 the
use OF the United States for postal, military,
ana all governmental services, at fair and
reasonable rates Of compensation, not to exceed
tbe lice paid by private parties for the same
Kind OF service, and the governments shall ut an
Times nave the preference i'm the use OF the
same Tor the purpose aforesaid.
SIC. 20. That II shall not be lawful for any of
tue directors, either in their individual cspa-
city or as members OF an Incorporated or Joint
STOCK company, to make any contracts or agree
menis vi the said Texas Pacific Railroad
company LOT the construction, equipment, or
running OF its road, or to have any interest
tEereln, and all such contracts or agreements
are hereby declared null and void, and all
money or property received under such con-
tracts or agreements may oerecovered back for
the benefit of the company by any stock bolder,
SIC. FL. That any railroad company whose
route lies across the route of the Texas Pacitc
railroad may croes the came, and for the pur-
pose OF crossing shall have the right to ACQUIRE
a. the oouole minimum price all lands, whether
of the United States or granted by this act.
wMch shall be needed for a right Of way two
nundreo 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.
SIC. y. That the New Orleans, Baton Rouge
and Vicksburg Railroad Company, chartered
oy the state OF Louisiana, shall have the right TO
connect by the most eligible 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
Rouge, thence by way of Alexandria, in said
state, 10 connect with the said Texas Pacific
hailroad Company at Its eastern terminus, there
Is hereby granted to said company, its success
sors ana assigns, the Same number of alternate
sections OF public lands Per mile, I'm the State of
Louisiana, as are by this act granite In the State
OF california, to said Texas Pacific Railroad
Company; and said lands shall be Withdrawn
from market, selected, and patents issued
therefor, and opened for settlement and pre-
emption, upon the same terms and I'm the same
nm manner anu ume as Is provided for and re-
Pany, within said State of California: Prorided,
That said company ehali complete the whole OF
sad road within five years from the passage Of
SEC. %. That, for the purpose Of connecting
the Texas Pacific railroad with the city of San
Francisco, the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
Pahy OF Cslfornl. is hereby authorized,
(subJect to the laws of California; to construct
q line OF railroad from a point at or near
Tehachapa 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 az
were granted TO said Southern Pacific railroad
Company of California, by the act of july
twenty seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-six:
Propided, ho'cerer, That this section shall in no
way affect or impair the rights. present or pros
pective, of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
Company or any other railroad company.
Approved, March 3, 1871.