Year: 1864

AN ACT TO amend an act entitled "An
act making grant Of land to the


State of Iowa, in alternate sections,


TO aid in the construction Of certain


railroads in said State" approved


May Is, 1856.


BE II enacted by The Senate and House
of Representatives. Of the United States
Of America tR Congress assembled, That
the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
Company, a corporation established
by the laws of the State Of Iowa, and
TO which the said State granted por-
ton of the land grant mentioned in
the title of this act, to aid in the con-
struction of a railroad from Davenport
to Council Bluffs in said State, may
modify or change the location of the
uncompleted portion of its line, as
shown by the map thereof now Oh file
in the General Land Office of the Uni
ted States, SO as to secure better
and more expeditions line for connec-
tion with the Iowa branch of the I'm
ion Pacific railroad Pr0ritled, Rererthe-
less. That said new line, if located,
shall IN every case pass through the
corporate limits of the cities of Des
Moines and Council Bluffs and the
right Of way over the public lands OF
the United States is hereby granted
TO said railroad company for that pur-
pose t: PrOrided, That said line shall
pass through the town Of Newton. in
Jasper county, or as near said town
as may be found practicable, and not
further north of said town than the
north line of section twenty-five, town
ship eighty north, of range nineteen,
according to the United States sur
veys, if the citizens of the county of
Jasper shall first pay to said compa-
ny the difference in cost, if any, be-
tween the line proposed by the compa-
ny aud the one contemplated by this
provision, including extra cost OF
right Of way. if any, said difference in
cost to be estimated by competent en-
gineers to be selected by the parties


Sec. 2. And be it further enacted
That whenever such new location
shall have been established, the sale
railroad company shall file in the Gen
eral Land Office at Washington map
definitely showing such new location


and the Secretary of the Interior shal
cause to be certified and conveyed tc
said company from time to time, as
the road progresses, out OF any pub.
lie lands now belonging to the United
States not sold, reserved, or other
wise disposed of, or to which a pre-
emption claim or right OF homestead
settlement has not attached, and on
which bona fde settlement and i'm.
provement has not been made under
color of title derived from the United
States or from the State of Iowa with
in six miles of such newly located
line, an amount of land per mile equa
to that originally authorized to be
granted to aid in the construction o.
said road by the act to which this i.
an amendment and if the amount o
land granted by the original act Il
aid in the construction of said railroad
shall not be found within the limit o.
six miles from such line, then such Sc
lections may be made along such line
within twenty miles thereof T: Prorided
That the said company shall not bs
entitled to, and shall not receive, any
land under this grant which is situa
te within fifteen miles of the line o
the Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad, as indicated by the map o
said road, now on file in the Genera
Land Office.


i Sec. 3. And be 1t further enacted
That the Burlington and Missouri Riv
er Railroad company, corporation
organized under the laws of the Stat.
of Iowa, and to which said State
granted portion of the land gran


mentioned in the title of this act t.
aid in the construction of railroa,
from Burlington in said State to th,