Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-08-19
JUST LEGISLATION.
A Bill that Ought to Become
a Law.

n Railroads Required 80 Patent
Their Lands and Pay Taxes on
Them-A Revenue of $4,000 to
the state and 100000 to the
Counties of Nevada.
The following bill, introduced by the
House Committee of which Mr.. Cassidy
is Chairman, the Committee on the Pacific
railroads, which passed the House, will be
read by the people of Nevada with interest.
special reference to it is made elsewhere
editorially:
An Act to amend an Act entitled Gan
Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to
aid in the construction OF q railroad and
telegraph line from the Missouri river TO
the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the
government the use of the same for postal,
military and other purposes approved
July l., 1862" approved July 2, 1854.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That Sec
ton 81 of an Act entitled IAN Act to
amend an Act entitled An act to aid
in the construction Of q railroad and tele-
graph line from the Missouri river to the
Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the govern
ment the use Of the same for postal, mill
tary, and other purposes approved July
5, 1862" approved July 2, 1864, be, and
the same is hereby, amended so as to read
as follows:
THAT before any land granted by this
| Act shall be conveyed to any company or
party entitled thereto under this Act, or
the Act Of which this is amendatory, there
shall be paid into the Treasury Of the
United States the cost Of surveying, select
ing, and conveying the same by the said
company or party in interest, as the titles
shall be required by said company.
which amount shall, without fur
Their appropriation, stand to the credit of
| the proper account, to be used by the Com
missioner of the General Land Office for
| the prosecution of the survey Of the public
lands along the line Of said road. and SO from
year to year until the whole shall be com-
| pleted as provided under the provisions Of
this act; and the several railway companies
to which grants of land are made by this
act, or the act approved July l, ! 1862, of
which this act is amepdstory, their success
sors and assigns, shall, within ninety days
from the passage of this act, as to all land
surveyed plats OF which are then in the pro-
per district land-ofices, or within go days
from the date Of receiving notice in writ
ing, served upon any officer or agent Of
any company interested, Of the receipt at
the respective district land-offices Of the
approved plat or plats not filed at the date
| OF the passage at this act, Of townships en-
bracing lands within the established limits
of the grant or grants, make and file in the
the said district land-office, under existing
| regulations, their lists Of selections of the
land claimed by them under their respec-
tive grants in each township named in
said notice, and shall deposit Herewith in
| such district lsnd-ofice or the Treasury Of
the United States, as the Secretary of the
Interior may designate, the cost OF sur
veying, selecting and conveying the same,
to the amount for each township as shall
be found due by the Secretary Of the In
terror. That in the event Of the failure Of
said companies, or either of them, to pay
| the cost of surveying, selecting and con-
veying such land within the time pre-
scribed by this Act, then the Secretary Of
the Interior shall Immediately notify the
President or Treasurer or other officer of
said company or companies of the amount
OF land which it or they are entitled to
patent in each township severally, and the
amount of the cost Of surveying, selecting
and conveying the same, and that he is
ready TO deliver to the company or COM
panies, it or their successors or assigns,
patents for all said tracts or parcels OF
land, upon the payment of such costs;
and if such company or companies shall
not, within 60 days after the receipt
OF said notice, pay such costs so found
due, then the right Of said company, or
any party claiming by, through, or under
| it. shall cease and be determined as to all
the lands within the townships named in
said notice, and claimed or to be claimed
under section three Of the Act of Congress
approved July /, 1862, and all Acts amend
atory thereof, as well as section two of
the Act Of Congress approved July
2, 1864, above herein recited; and
said lands, so discharged of any and
all claim, shall be restored to the public
| domain for settlement under the home
stead laws; provided, that if the amount
found due by the Secretary of the Interior
as costs for surveying, selecting and con-
veying OF the lands in each township as
aforesaid, and which is required hereby to
be deposited, shall afterwards be found to
be in excess of the true amount due, then
| such excess shall be refunded to the de-
positor out of the fund herein provided by
the Secretary of the Treasury, on the order
of the Secretary Of the Interior, which
| order shall specify the facts upon which
it is issued; and if the amount 80 deposited
| shall be found to be too small, an action
| shall lie, at the suit Of the United States,
to recover the deficiency, saving to any
purchaser the right to pay the costs afore-
said attaching to the lands he claims.
Upon the payment of said costs of survey
ing, selecting and conveying, the Secretary
OF the Interior shall issue patents convey
ing to said company or companies, its or
their successors or assigns, titles to the
lands to which 1t or they may be entitled,
and shall place said patents upon record
in his Department, and shall notify the
President or some officer of such company
that said patents have been so issued and
recorded, and are ready for delivery to said
company"
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