Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-02-21
A BILL
Extending the Time to Construct and
Complete the Northern Pacific Rail
road.


bled, That the grants. rights, privileges
corporate powers, and franchises, in
GLIDING the franchise to be corpora
ton, conferred upon the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company BY its charter,
and the various joint resolutions Of
Congress amendatory thereof and sup
Elementary thereto, be, aud the same
are hereby confirmed, granted, and con.
tinued to the said Northern Pacific
Railroad Company as now recognized
and ten years time from the passage
Of this act is hereby granted TO said
company for the construction and com.
pletion of its main line, and FIVE years
time from the passage Of this act for
the construction and completion Of its
branch line, via the valleys of the Yak.
imr and Puyallup rivers subject to all
the terms and conditions prescribed by
said cbar,er and joint resolutions, ex-
cept as changed by this act Provided
however, And said extention of time is
granted upon the following express
conditions, namely:
First The said company shall with
in one year after the passage of this
act; resume the work of constructing
its railroad, and shall complete in add.
ton to the road already completed, at
least one hundred miles of its main line
per year thereafter, aud at least twenty.
five miles of the hundred mi es to be
completed per year shall be west of the
Rocky Mountains, on said main line or
branch.
Second. The main line of said rail-
road between Portland aud a point as
far cast as Umatilla. in the State Of
Oregon, shall be located and constructed
on the south side Of the Columbia river;
Prorided, The said State consents
thereto.
Third Actual settlers on unsur !.
veyed agricultural lands within the
limits OF the grant to said company, If
said lands, when the government sur
veys shall be extended over them, shall
be found to be embraced in said grant !;
and actual settlers on any agricultural
lands within the limits Of said grant,
who shall have settled thereon at dis.
lance Of one hundred miles or more be.
yond the completed portion Of said road
at either end; and actual settlers on
any agricultural lands within the limits
ofsaid grant remaining unscld at the
expiration Of eight years from the com.
pletion and acceptance Of the section Of
the road opposite thereto, if said las,
mentioned lands shall be then surveyed
by the government, aud If not, then at
the expiration Of eight years after the
government surveys shall be extended
over them, shall be entitled each to
purchase from said company one quar-.
ter-section, or legal sub. division there.
Of, on which they shall have settled, al
the price Of two dollars and fifty cents
per acre, excepting coal and iron lands
and lands within the right Of way 70,
said railroads Prorided, howeuer
That this section shall not apply to the
lands already earned by the company
SEC. 2. That all the lands heretofore
withdrawn from the branch line of this
road, pia the Snoqualmie Pass, be, aud
the same are hereby restored to the pub,
lie domain, to be disposed Of as othel
public lands, except such of said land,
as may be within the limits of tn,
grant and indemnity limits applicabl,
to the amended line Of said branch vi,
the Yakima and Puyallup valleys.
SEC. 3. That where presumption O
homestead claims were initiated or pri
vate entries or locations were allowed
upon lands embraced 10 the grant /,
said company prior to tile receipt OF tn,
orders Of Withdrawal at the respectiv,
district land Offices, the Ian Is embrace,
in such entry or location shall be pat
ented to the parties entitled to tn,
same, as If said grant had not bee,
made, shall be open TO settlement b,
presumption or homestead only. but tn,
said company shall be entitled to 10
demnity therefor, as now provided b,
law.
SEC. 4. The entries remaining un
adjusted and suspended in the genera
land Office on account of the increas,
OF price Of the even sections within tn
limits Of said grant, where the sam
were made or based upon set,lomen
prior to the receipt Of the orders o
withdrawal Of said lands at the distric
land Offices, shall be relieved from sacl
suspension and carried into patent; hu
nothing in this act shall be construe,
to affect existing adjustments or t
authorize the refnn6ing of any money
received for such lands under existin,
laws.
SEC. 5. That the said company be
and it is hereby authorized to issue il
bonds from time to time, 10 aid in tn
construction and equipment of its road
not to exceed twenty four thousand dol
lars per mile, and to secure the sam
BY mortgages on the whole or any par
or parts Of its railroad and property q
rights Of property Of all kinds ard de
scriptions. with the rights, privilege
and franchises thereto annerta;n,no IN