Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-03-02

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To- tie said Northern Pacific Railroad
Company rs now reOr:anIzed; and
ten year . time from the passage Of
this act is hereby granted to said
company for the construction and
completion Of its main line. subject
to all the terms aud conditions pre-
scribed by said charter and joint res
olutions, except as changed by this
act; prOrided howercr, that said ex-
tension Of time is granted upon the
following expressed conditions,
namely:
First-The said company shall,
within one year after the passage of
this act, commence the work of con-
structing its. main line at or near
Umatilla, in the State of Oregon, or
some suitable point between there
and the mouth of Snake river, as the
said company shall determine, and
shall complete not less than twenty
Eve miles Of it's road eastwardly per
year thereafter, and shall complete,
iAaddition to theroAd already com-
.plstsd, st asast one hundred nailes OF
lid main line eaCh. year thereafter,
including in esch said one hundred
miles the twenty-five to be completed
per year eastwardly as aforesaid.
Second-The main line of said
railroad between Portland and
point as far east as Umatilla, in the
State of Oregon, shall be located
and constructed on the south side
of the Columbia river.
Third-Actual settlers on unsur-
veyed agricultural lands within the
limits of the grant to said company,
if said lands when the Government
surveys shall be found to be en-
braced in said grant; and actual
settlers on any agricultural lands
within the limits of said grant, who
shall have settled thereon at a dis.
tance of one hundred miles or more
beyond the completed portion of said
road at either end; and actual set
tiers on any agricultural lands with
in the limits of said grant remain
ing unsold at the expiration of eight
years from the completion and ac-
ceptance of the road opposite there
to, if said last mentioned lands shall
be surveyed by the Government,
and if not, then within eight years
after the government surveys shall
then be extended over the same,
shall be entitled each to purchase
from said company one.quarter sec
ton, or legal subdivision thereof,
on which they shall have settled, at
the price of two dcllars and fifty
cents per acre, excepting coal and
iron lands, within tue right of way
for said railroad; Prorided, ho,cerer,
That this section shall no. apply to
the lands already earned by said
company.
SIC. 2. That all the lands here
tofore Withdrawn from the branch
line of said road, be and the same
are hereby, restored to the public
domain, 10 be disposed Of as other
public lands. except for the distance
Of twenty miles north of the portion
of said branch now constructed
from Tacoma To WIlkeson, IN WASH
Iagton Terrt"ry. And the said
CO npanv shall reo~sss patents iOr
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