Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-24

States, upon the completion of the first section
OF twenty miles, shall appoint one commissioner
whose duty it shall be to examine the various
sections of twenty miles as they shall be COM
and il, 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 issue patents to
said company for the lands it is entitled to under
this act, as fast as each section of said road is
completed - 5 ~ = =
z Sec. 10. That the Texas Pacific Railroad
Company shall be, and it is hereby, declared to
be military and post road and for the pur-
pose OF insuring the carrying the mails, troops,
munitions of war, supplies, and stores of the
United States. no act of the company nor any.
law OF any State or Territory shall impede, de-
lay, or prevent the saldcompany from perform
ing its obligations to the United States in that
regard: Provided, That said road shall be sub
ject to the use OF the United States for postal,
military, and all other governmental services,
at fair and reasonable 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. 70. That it shall not be lawful for any of
the directors, either in their individual capacity
or as members of an Incorporated 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 de-
clared 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. a-e-9 1is4
Sec. q. That any railroad company whose
route lies across the route of the Texas Pacific
Railroad may cross the same and for the pur-
pose 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 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. y...- i. i,ra saoc
SEC. @ That the New Orleans, Baton Rouge
and Vicksburg Railroad Company, chartered
by the State Of Louisiana, shall have the right
to connect BY the most eligible.rogte to Be Sc
Railroad at its eastern terminus, and shall have
the right of way through the public land toithe
same extent granted hereby to the Texas Pacific
Railroad Company; and in aid of its construc-
ton 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
by this act granted in the State of California, to
said Texas Pacific Railroad Company and said
lands shall be withdrawnfrom market, selected
and patents issueditherefor, and opened for Set
Element and presumption, upon the same terms
and in the same manner and time as is provided
for and required from said Texas Pacific Rail-
road 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 g. That for the purpose of connecting
the Texas Pacific Railroad with the city of. San
Francisco, the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany of California is hereby authorized, fsub-
ject to the laws of California to construct line
of railroad from point at or near Tehachapa
Pass, by way of LosiAngeles, to the Texas Pa
cifc railroad at or near the Colorado river, with
the same rights, grants and privileges, and sub;
ject to the same limitations, restrictions. and
conditions as were granted to said Southern Pa
cifc Railroad Company of California. by the
act of Julytwenty- eighteen hundred and
sixty-six: Provided, ho,oees7;, That this section
shall in no way affect or impair the rights pres
ent or prospective, of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company or any other railroadi COM
Approved, March 8, 1877. l-I,lnol ~. -.ln ~.