The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-05
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Tn reordaucF with 2 resolution o.
the lirs-s. ock men st y. Louis, j bill
providing for the national trail has
heap prepared and presented to Texas.
The st. LOUIS resolution directed the
appointment of a committee Of nine
men from different states to prepare
this bill and memorialize congress on
the subject, but the reports from
Washington do not credit anybody
as acting except from Texas The
hill and memorial has been prepared
BIZ ex-Congressman Upson, of san An
tonic, and the papers were presented to
congress by Congressman james f.
Miller, OF this state. The bill is rs
follows:
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH 4 QUARAN-
tt, ED NATIONAL LIVE STOCK TRAIL.
lie it enacted, elc: That the secre-
! tary OF the interior he, and Is hereby
| directed to appoint as soon as practl-
| cable, three commissioners whose GuJy
it shall be to lay out and establish by
Inetes and bounds public highway
to be known as Quarantined Nation
| al Live Stock Trail, for the purpose OF
! driving cattle, horst S, sheep, hogs, OF
other live stock to market or from One
! location to aGother-and further, tC
establish by metes and bounds at con
yenienC points on said trail, suitable
| quar- antined grcZlng grounds, where
SAID live stock may be neld and graZe1
for short periods during the drive.
Sec. 2. That said quarantined na
tioaal live stock trail shall begin on
Red river, as near the Tooth degree o.
longitude as may be deemed practica
bic for tbs purposes OF this act; thence
running in a northerIy direction
through the Indian Territory, follow
ing as near as practicable the present
trail known as the Fort Griffin an(
Dodge City trail to a point II
township 30, range Y west, Ii
Ford county, on the south Donndar.
line of the state of Kansas. Thence
over the unappropriated public land
belonging to the United States, FOL
lowing as near as practicable tn
aforesaid present cattle trail IN
northerIy and northWesterly dIrec
ton through the counties OF Ford
Hodgeman, Lane. Scott, ST.: John
Thomas, Shern.s.Sa GS,,;,I usadeyenne, il
the state of KaI 49, the southern
boundary hne of the state of Ne
braska; thence in a northerl
and north westerly direction acros
the state OF Nebraska to tn
. southern boundary line of the terri
tory OF Dakota; thence in a genera
northerly direction as may be deeme
most practicable through the tern
tories Of Dakota, Wyoming and Nor
tana. or any one or more OF. them t
r the northern boundary line OF tn
United States.
" Sec. 8. That said Quarantine
J, National Live Stock trail may be {
f any practicable width not eXceedin
o six miles, and said quarantined gra'
: ing grounds shall not exceed twelv
miles square at any one place.
Sec. 4. That the inappropriate
g public lands upon which said Quaral
, tined National Live Stock Trail an
> grazing lands may be establishe
y snail be and are hereby withdraw
' and withheld from sale, location {
e settlement, and are set apart for tt
V exclusive purposes of said trail ar
; quarantine grounds, aad for the ter
y Of ten years from the establiShmel
u Of the same as herein prov ided, duriI
l. which period any and all kinds
U live stock from any state or territol
: and at any and all seasons Of the ye
l. may be driven over said trail and he
n on said grazing lands for the purpos
Y, intended by this act.
- Sec. 5. That as said commissions
- shall have laid out and designated sd
Z, trail in accordance with t5e pr0visio
y IF this act, they shall make a repo
e thereof to the secretary of the interiC
% fully defining said trail, and if such !
~ port shall be approved by the secreta
le of the interior, he shall cause the saT
s. to be recorded in the general land
n flee of the United States, and shall
20 once give public notice OF the esta
~ lishment of said trail by causing pU
20 LEGATION thereof in some neWSpaI
IL unhliahed at the capital Of the stat
,e Vi Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Colora
or and Nebraska.
81 Sec. 6. That the sum Of $4,000,
re so much thereof as may be necessa
ne is hereby appropriated out OF a
10 money IN the treasury not otherW
appropriated for the purpose of payl
III the expense of carrying out the p
re visions of this act, subject to the Or
ne of the secretary of the interior.