New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-13

sect said Texas Pacific railroad, shall have
| a 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 and
passengers over their own road; Provided,
also, That said connecting roads shall recl-
procate said right of connection and equal
ity of charges with said Texas Paclnc 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 It, 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 Kali
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 1t
may deem necessary and proper to secure
its speedy completion.
SEC. 49, 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 to under
| this act, as fast as each section of said road
| is completed.
SEC 49, That the Texas Pacific
Railroad Company shall be, and il
| is hereby, declared to be 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 OF prevent the said company
| from performing its Obligations to the
| United States in that regard; provided, tina,
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. 90 That it shall not be lawful fol-
| 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 OF
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 fOI
| the purpose OF. crossing shall have the right
| to ACQUIRE at the double minimum price all
| lands, whether of the United States OF
| 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 al
| any one station.
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 ellgi-
| 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, il
said State, to connect with the said Texas
| Pacific Railroad Company at its eastern
| terminus, there is hereby granted to saio
/ company, its successors and assigns, the
same number of alternate sections of public
lands per mile, in the State of Louisiana, az
| are by this act granted in the State OF Cali
fornia, to said Texas Pacific Railroad
| Company; and said lands shall be with
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issued therefor, and opened for settlement
| and presumption, upon the same terms anC
in the same manner and time as is provided
for and required from said Texas Pacific
| Railroad Company, within said State o
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 cit,
of San Francisco, the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company of California is. hereby au
thorized Subject to the laws of California
to construct line of railroad from poin
at or near Tehaehapa Pass, by way OF Lo
| Angeles, to the Texas Pacific railroad at o
near the Colorado river, with the sam
rights, grants and privileges, and subjec
to the same limitations restrictions, ant
conditions as were granted to said Southern
Pacific Railroad Company of California, b,
the act of July twenty-seven, eighteel
hundred and sixty-six: Provided, however
| That this section shall in no way affect o
impair the rights, present or prospective 0
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Compan.
or any other railroad company
| Approved March 3, 1871
| GENERAL NATURE-N0. So.
AN ACT to renew certain grants Of land t
the State Of Alabama.
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