Year: 1866

day of March, anil so acted until the end


of the Session. SCHUYLER CoLFAX, Speaker


of the House of Representatives.


CHAP CLVIu.


An Act to extend the Time for the Reversion to


the United States of the Lands granted by Con-


gress to aid in the Construction of Railroad


from Amboy, by Hillsdale and Lansing, to


some Point on or near Traverse Bay, in the


State of Michigan, and for the Completion of


said Road.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
in Congress assembled That the time limited
by the fourth section of act entitled " An act
making grant of alternate sections of the public
lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the con-
strucIion of certain railroads in said State, and
for other purposes" approved June three, eigh-
the railroad from Amboy, by Hillsdale and Ian
sing, to some point on near Traverse bay, shall
be, and hereby is, revived and extented for the
period of seven years, from and after the third
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-si and that said grants shall continue and
remain in full force and effect for and during that
period, as if it had been provided in said fourth
section of said act of June three, eighteen hum
dred and ffty-six: Provided the Amboy, Lansing,
and Traverse Bay Railroad Company, corpora
ton organized under the laws of the State of
Michigan, shall S'rfeit all right to said grant,
any part thereof which it may now have, or which
may hereafter be conferred upon it, by the legis-
lature of the State of Michigan, if and whenever
the said company shall fall in whole or in part
fully and completely to perform any of the follow
ing conditions, that is to say: First, to clear,
grug, and grade twenty consecutive miles OF the
rord-bed of said road between Owasso and Sagi-
nav City, so that the same shall be in readiness
for the ties and iron by the first day of February,
eighteen hundred and sXty-seven; Second, to
fully complete said road from Owasso to Saginaw
City, SO that the shall be in readiness for the
running of trains by the first day of November,
eighteen hundred and sixty-sevcn; Third, to fully
complete in like manner twenty miles of said road
in each and every year after the said first day OF
November, eighteen hundred and siXty-seven,
and to fully complete the entire road by the time
limited by this act And provided further, That
in case of failure of said Amboy, Lansing, and
Traverse Bay Rail Company to perform any of
the above conditions by the respective times linn
tied the legislature of the State of Michigan may
at its first session after any such failure, confer
the said grant upon some other aailroad corpor-
ton, or corporations, upon such terms and con-
ditiOns the legislature may see hit, to carry out
the purposes of the said act of June three eighteen
hundred and fiftysiX, and when SO conferred, such
have and enjoy all of the said grant, which shall
not then have been lawfully disposed of to the
same extent and in the same manner and for the
same purposes, as if the same had been originally
conferred upon such corporation or corporations.
And any such railroad corporation or corporations,
whether now organized OF hereafter to be organ
lied, upon which said grant may be SO conferred
in whole or in part, may receive the same without
prejudice to any land grant, or other rights or
franchises previously acquired. But In no case
shall such corporation corporations be entitled
to receive more than ten sections of land to the
mile, for that portion of said road which may be
consolidated in accordance with the provisions of
this act And, provided further, That if the legls-


ature shall, in any such case OF failure so confer
said grant above provided, then the said lands,
or so much thereof as shall then remain not law
fully disposed of shall be subject to the disposal
and future control of said legislature, as provided


in section three of said act of June three, eighteen
hundred and ffty-six, until the expiration of the
time limited by this act. But in case the said


legislature shall in such case fail to SO confer said
grant, then the said lands shall revert to the
Unitek States.


SEC 2 And be it further enacted That the Flint
and Pere Marquette Railroad Company may change
the western terminus of it's roau to some point on
Lake Michigan at or south of Grand Traverse
Bay; and any railroad corporations, having
the said act of June three, eighteen hundred and
ffty-six, located in the lower peninsula of the
State of Michigan, may unite and contract with
each other, or with any other railroad corpora
ton corporations, for the construction and
operation Of a single line of road for any portion
Of their routes, without prejudice to any land
grants, or other rights or franchises previously
acquired. And any and all such corporations are
hereby authorized to change the location OF their
lines of road, far may be necessary, for the
purpose of such consolidation but not as to
change their respective termnl otherwise than is
authorized by this act. And whenever any change
of terminus or location OF line is made as PROVIDED
for in this act, the corporation or corporations
making such change, shall file in the General Land
Office new maps definitely showing such change
the road mentioned in the first section OF this act
shall run on the west side of Sagi river, and





northern portion of the plat of Saginaw City, SO
as best to accommodate the cities OF Saginaw and
East Saginaw.


SEC 8 And be it further enacted, That the
lands granted by the said act of June three,
eighteen hundred and fitty-six, to aid in the con-
struction of the railroad described in the first
section of this act, shall be disposed of only in
the following manner, that is to say: when the
Cover of the State of Michigan shall certify to
the Secretary of the Interior that ten or more
consecutive miles of said road have been COM
pleted in a good and substantial manner, a
frst-class railroad, stating definitely the com
mencement and termination of each completed
portion of said road the corporation or cor
poration entitled to land on account thereof,
the Secretary OF the Interior shall cause patents
for lands for such completed portion of said road
to be ISSUED to said CORPORATION: Provided, That
of said lands shall be acquired patented
for any portion of said road so completed south
of the intersection of said road with the Detroit
and Milwaukee railway, until the whole OF salb
road north of said intersection shall have been
completed and the lands therefor patented as
aforesaid: And provided further, That the road
mentioned in the first section of this act shall be
and remain public highway for the use of the
government o. the United States, and shall
transport, free from toll other charges, all
property, troops, and munitions of war belonging
to the same.


SEC T. And be it further enacted, That all laws
and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions
of this act hereby repealed.


Approved, July 3, 1866.