Year: 1874

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gress and Of this act, and shall de.
poslt with the state treasurer securi-
ty a. hereinbefore provided for the
North Wisconsin Railway Compa-
my, approved by the governor to
construct said road in accordance
with said acts CT congress and with
this act, shall succeed to the rights
and privileges herein conditionaIIy
granted to the said North WIscon-
sin Railway Company, as fully as
though this act had in the first IN
stance applied to said company.


Sec. 6. Upon presentation to the
state treasurer OF satisfactory proof
that said North Wisconsin Railway
Company has completed forty con-
tinuOus miles of said road, it shall
be the duty of the state treasurer
and he is hereby directed and re-
CURED TO pay over to said company
so much Of the money in the state
treasury collected from trespassers
on any Of said lands embraced in
said grant as shall be apportiQned
to 1t as herein provided: provided
that none Of said money shall be SO
paid over until Congress shall have
renewed or extended said grant, or
the title to said grant shall have be
come vested in the state.


Sec. I. II shall be the duty O.
said railway company to make and
have functions and running counec-
tons with all railroads that may or
shall cross the same or III any other
way connect Herewith, and said
railway company shall receive gram
in bulk or other freight for transpor-
tatlon to any place within this state,
and shall receive and transport the
grain and other freight 50 received,
and shall transport all passengers
that may be transferred 10 said rail
road from roads crossing the same,
or which may connect Herewith III
any other manner, at the same rates
that said railway company may
charge for grain, freight or passen-
gers received and transported Who'll
" on the line OF said road. Proyi-
ded lhat the said North Wisconsin
Railway Company shall have the
right to enforce reciprocal obliga-
tIOns on all other roads crossing the
same or connecting in any other
manner herewith, as to the rates
for transporting grain, freight or
passengers transferred or received
by said road so crossing or connect
ing, as aforesaid, from said North
Wiscon lii Railway Company.


Sec. s. There is hereby granted
to the Chicago and Northern Paci-
tic -Air Line Railway Company all
the right, title and interest W which
the state of y isconsin now has or
may hereafter acquire in or to that
portion Of the lands granted to said
state by said two acts Of Congress,
rs is Or can be made applicable to
the construction Of that part Of the
railway of said company lying be-
tween the point Of intersection OF
the branches of said grants, as fixed
by the surveys and maps on file in
the land office at Washington, and
the west end Of Lake Superior. This
grant is made upon the express con-
dition that said company shall con
>Jruct, complete ami put III opera
Jion that part Of It's said railway
above mentioned, rs soon as a rail
way shall be constructed and put IN
operation from the city of Hudson
to said point Of intersection, and
within five years from its accept
ance OF said lands as herein provi-
ded, and shall also construct and
put in operation the railway Of said
company from Genoa northerly at
the rate Of twenty miles per year.


Sec. 8. he governor Is hereby
authorized and directed upon the
presentation to him of satisfactory
proof that twenty continuous miles
OF that part of the railway Of said
company just above mentioned have
been completed in accordance with
said acts of congress and this act,
to issue and deliver or cause to he
issued and delivered TO said compa-
ny patents in due form from said
state for two hundred sections Of
said land and thereafter upon the
completion OF twenty continuous
miles OF said railway, he shall issue
or cause to be issued and delivered
to said company patents for two
hundred sections OF said lands, and
on the completion of that part OF
the railway Of said company lying
between said point OF intersection
and the west end Of Lake Superior,
he shall issue and deliver or cause
10 be issued and delivered to said
company patents for the residue of
said lands hereby granted to SAID
company.


See. 10. The moneys in the state
treasury collected from trespasscrs
on the lands included in the grants
to aid in the construction Of a rail
road from St. CroiX lake or river to
the west end of Lake Superior and
to Bayfield, and all moneys that
NAV hereafter be collected by the
state from trespassers on said lands,
shall be apportioned by the state
treasurer between the said Chicago
& Northern Pacific Air Line Rail
way Company and the company or