Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-23

companies shall be assumed by the said Texas
Pacific Railroad Company as may be agreed
upon, and no such consolidation 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
consolidate or purchase as aforesaid, to an
amount greater than the cash value of the, as
sets received from the same ead
SEC. 7. That the said Texas Pacific Railroad
Company shall have power to make and enforce
rules and bylaws for the election of its officers
and the government and management of the
business OF the company, and to do and per
form all needful and proper things to be done
and performed to promote the objects of the
company hereby incorporated, not Inconsistent
with the laws of the United States and the pro-
visions of this charter. aasg II i9a Esm II
SEC s. That the right of way through the
public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted
to the said company for the construction of the
said railroad and telegraphic line, and the right
power, and authority is hereby given to said
company to take, from the public lands ada
cent to the line Of sand 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; and there is also hereby
granted to said company grounds for stations,
buildings, workshops, wharves,, switches, side
tracks, turntables, water stations, and such
other structures as be necessary for said rail-
road not exceeding forty acres of land at any
one point
SEC. g. That for the purpose of aiding in the
construction of the railroad and telegraph 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 Sec
tons 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 been sold, reserved on
otherwise disposed Of by the United States, and
to which apre-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-empted, or otherwise disposed of, other
lands shall be selected in lieu thereof by said
company, under direction of the Secretary of
the Interior, in alternate sections, and designat-
ed by odd numbers, not more than ten miles be-
yond the limits of said alternate sections first
above named, and not including the reserved
numbers. If, in the too near approach of said
railroad line to the boundary Of Mexico, the
number of sections of land to which the com.
panyis entitled cannot be selected Immediately
on the line of said railroad, or in lieu of miner
al lands excluded from this grant, a like guam
tity of unoccupied and unappropriated agricul
tural lands, in odd numbered sections nearest
the line of said srailroad may be selected a.
above provided: and the word mineral, 7
where it occurs in this act shall not be held. t.
include iron or coal: Provided, hotcecer,k Tha
no public lands are hereby granted within tn,
State of California further than twenty miles OF
each side of said road, sexeept to make up def
ciencies as aforesaid, and then. not, to exceed
twenty miles from the lands originally 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, waterfront Of Sar
Diego bay than it may acquire by gift, grant
purchase, or otherwise, except the right of way
as herein, provided: Ind prOridcd further
That all such lands SO granted by this section
to said company, which shall not be sold, OIL
otherwise disposed of, as provided in this act
within three years after the completion of the
said road, shall be subject to settlement and pre-
emption like other lands, at 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 land herein granted ,sael -r9,d 1
SEC. 10. That when the route of said railroad
and telegraph line shall pass, through the lands
of private persons, or where 1t may be necessary
for said railroad company to take any lands be-
longing to private persons for any of the pur.
poses herein mentioned 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. MOTTO (