New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-13

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une, and the right, power and authority
hereby given to said company to take, fro,
tne pubic lands adjacent to the line of sal
road, earth. stone, timber and other mat,
rails for the construction thereof. Sal
right Of way is granted to said company t
the extent Of two hundred feet in width o.
each side Of said railroad where it may pas
over, the public lands; and there is ais
hereby granted to said company ground
for stations, buildings, workshops, wharyes
switches, side-tracks, turntables, water
stations, and such other structures % ma,
be necessary for said railroad, not exceed
ing forty acres of land at any one point.
Sec. 8. That for the purpose of aiding il
the construction Of the railroad and tele
graph line herein provided for, there il
hereby granted to the said Texas Pacific
Railroad Company, its successors ant
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 hare been sold,
reserved, or otherwise disposed of by the
United States, and to which a 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 in lieu thereof by
said company, under the direction of the
Secretary Of the Interior, in alternate sec
tons, 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.
IL, IN the too near approach OF the SAID 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. 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 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,
that all such lands, SO granted by this
section to, said company, which shall not be
sold or otherwise disposed of, as provided
in this act, within three years after the
completion of the entire road. shall be sub
iect to settlement and presumption like
other lands, at price to be fixed by and
paid to said company, no: 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 tor 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
Sec. ii. That the Texas Pacific Railroad
Company shall have power and. authority
to issue two kinds Of bonds. secured by
mortgage. namely: first construction bonds;
land bonds. Construction bonds
shall be secured by mortgage, first. ON all
Or any portion Of the franchises. road-bed
or track of said railroad, and all the appur-
tenances thereto belonging, when con-
or in the course Of construction.
from a point at or near Marshall, to ships
channel, in the bay of San Diego, in the
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
railroad as is provided for in this act;
second, on lands acquired by any arrange
ment or purchase or terms of consolidation
with any railroad company or companies to
whom grants of lands may have been made
Dr. may hereafter be made by any congress
,iOnal, State or territorial authority, or who
may have purchased the same previous to
any such arrangement or consolidation;
provided, that all the mortgages made and
executed by said railroad company shall be
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-
rided 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-
7ided further, That said mortgage shall in
N the property OF said company or COM |
,anies at or before the time Of such CONSOLE |
latiOn.
Sec. IL. That whenever the said COM
,any shall complete the first and each sue !
eeding section of twenty consecutive miles |
# said railroad and put it III running order |
is tirst-class road in all its appointments, |
t shall be the duty of the Secretary Of the |
Interior to cause patents to be issued con- (
,eying to SAID company the number of Sec
ions of land opposite to and coterminous
With said completed road to which it shall |
,e entitled for each section SO completed. |
,aseage of this act, shall designate the gen.
raj route OF its said road, as near as may
re, and shall file map Of the same in the
Department Of the Interior: and when the
nap is SO filed, the Secretary of the In
erior Immediately thereafter, shall cause
he lands within forty miles on each side
# said designated route within the Terri.
cries, and twenty miles within the State OF
california, to be withdrawn from pre-
mption, private entry, and sale; Provided,
lowever, That the provisions Of the
nd forty-One, granting presumption
lights, and the acts amendatOry there
+, and of the act entitled IAN Act
o secure hOmesteads to actual settlers on
he public domain" approved May twenty, |
ighteen hundred and sixty-twO. and the
thereto, shall be, and the same
re hereby, extended to all other lands Of the
'-nited States on the line Of said road when
urveyed, except those hereby granted to
aid company.
SEC. l3 That the president Of the com.
any shall annually, BY the first day of July,
make a report and file it with the Secretary |
+ the Interior, which report shall be under
ath exhibiting the financial nc os situation OF
nd expended and the number of miles of
Dad constructed each year; and further.
he names and residences Of the stock
,oI,1o,, - A. d;,oo+ors and IF all other |