New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-04

SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Vice President of the United States and
President Of the Senate.
Approved December Is, 1870. v-'f..t'
U. s. GRANT. =
GENERAL NArURE-No.
AN ACT granting to the Utah Central Rail
road Company right Of way through
the public lands for the construction Of .
railroad and telegraph.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That the
right of way through the public lands be.
and the same is hereby granted to the Utah
Central Railroad Company, corporation
created under the laws of the legislative as
sembly of the Territory Of Utah, its sue
cessOSs and assigns, for the construction of
railroad and telegraph from point at or
near Ogden City, in the Territory Of Utah,
to Salt Lake City, in said Territory; and
the right, power, and authority is hereby
given to said corporation to take from the
public lands adjacent q the S1ine Of said
road material Of earth, stone, timber, and
60 forth, tor the construction thereof. Said
way is granted to said railroad to the extent
of two hundred feet in width on each side
of said railroad where it may pass
through the public domain, including all
necessary ground for station build
ings, workshops, depots, machine-shops,
switches, side.tracks. turntables and water
stations: provided, that within three months
from the passage of this act, the said Utah
Central Railroad Company shan He with
the Secretary of the Interior q map to be
approved by him, exhibiting the line of the
railroad of said company, as the same has
been located and constructed; provided,
further, that said company shall not charge
the government higher rates than they do
individuals for like transportation and tel
egraphic service. And it shall. be the duty
Of the Utah Central Railroad Company to
permit any other railroad, which has been
or shall he authorized to be built by the
United States, or by the Legislature Of the
Territory Of Utah, to form running cOnHec-
tions with its road on fair and equitable
terms.
United States make the grants herein, and
that the said Utah Central Railroad Com
pany accepts the same, upon the express
condition that the said company shall not
exercise the power given by section ten of
chapter sixteen Of the laws Ofthe Territory
Of Utah, approved nineteenth of February
eighteen hundred and sixty nine; and upon
the further express condition that if the
said company make any breach of the con-
ditiOns hereof, then in such case, at any
time hereafter, the United States, by it's
Congress, may do any and all acts and
for the enforcement of such conditions.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That
said Utah Central Railroad shall be post
route and military road, subject to the
use of the United States for postal, military,
naval and all other government service,
and also subject to such regulations as Con-
gress may impose, restricting the charges
for such government transportation.
Sec. a. Aud be it further enacted, That
the acceptance of the terms, conditions and
impositiOns of this act, by the said Utah
Central Railroad Company, shall be signi-
fed in writing under the corporate seal of
said company, duly executed pursuant to
the direction of its board of directors first
had and obtained, which acceptance shall
be made within three months after the
passage OF this act, and shall be served ON
the President Of the United States; and if
such acceptance and service shall not be so
made, this grant shall be void.
Sec. S. And be it further enacted, That
Congress may at any time, having due re-
gard for the rights Of said Utah Central
Railroad Company, add to, alter, amend,
or repeal this act.
Approved, December Is, 1870.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 81
AN ACT to amend an act entitled IAN act
to reduce internal taxes, and for other
purposes" approved July fourteen, eight
cen hundred and seventy.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That so
much of section twenty-one of the act to
reduce internal taxes, and for other pur-
poses, approved July fourteen, eighteen
hundred and seventy, as relates to sugar,
be amended SO (that] it will read
On all sugar not above number seven,
Dutch standard in color, one and three-auar.
ter cents per pound.
On all sugar above number seven, and
not above number ten, Dutch standard in
color, two cents per pound.
On all sugar above number ten, and not
above number thirteen, Dutch standard in
color, two and one-quarter cents per pound.
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