Year: 1866

tinuous line; and the companies herein
named in Missouri, Kansas, and California
filing their assent to the provisions of this
act, shall receive and transport all iron rails,
chairs, spikes, tics, timber, and all materials
required for constructing and furnishing said
aforementioned line between the aforesaid
point, on the one hundredth meridian of Ion
gitude and western boundary of Nevada
Territory, whenever the same is required by
said tlrst-named company, at COST over that
portion of the roads of said companies con-
structed under the provisions of this act


Sec. 13. And he it further enacted, That
the Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad
Company of Missouri may extend its roads
from Saint Joseph, via Atchison to connect
and unite with the road through Kansas,
upon filing its assent to the provisions of this
act, upon the same terms and conditions, in
all respects, for one hundred miles in length
next to the Missouri River, as are provided
in this act for the construction of the railroad
and telegraph line first mentioned, and may


or this purpose, Use any railroad charter
which has been or may be granted by the
Legislature of Kansas; Provided, That if ac-
tual survey shall render it desirable, the said
company may construct their road, with the
consent of the Kansas Legislature, on the most
direct and practicable route west from St.
Joseph, Missouri. so as to connect and unite
with the road leading from the western
boundary of Iowa at any point east of the
one hundredth meridian of west longitude,
or with the main trunk, road at said point
but in no event shall lands or bonds be given
to said company, as herein directed, to aid in
the construction of their said road for a
greater distance than one hundred miles,
And the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western
Railroad Company of Kansas may construct
their road from Leavenworth to unite with
the road through Kansas.


Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That
the said Union Pacific Railroad Company is
hereby authorized and required to construct
d single line of railroad and telegraph from
a point on the western boundary of the State
of Iowa, to be fixed by the President of the
United States, upon the most direct and
practicable route, to be subject to his ap-
prevail SO as TO form connection with the
lines of said company at some point the
one hundredth meridian of longitude afore-
said from the point of commencement on the
western boundary of the State of Iowa, upon
the same terms and conditions, in all respects
contained in this act for the construc-
ton of the said railroad and telegraph first
mentioned; and the said Union Pacific Rail-
road Company shall complete one hundred
miles of the road and telegraph in this sec
ton provided for, in two years after filing
their assent to the conditions of this act as
by the terms of this act required, and at the
rate of one hundred miles per year thereafter,
until the whole is completed: Provided,
That failure upon the part of said company
to make said connection in the time aforc-
said, and to perform the obligations imposed
on said company by this section and to
operate said road in the same manner as the
main line shall be operated, shall forfeit to
the government of the United States all the
rights, privileges, and franchises granted to
and conferred upon said company by this
act. And whenever there shall be line of
railroad completed through Minnesota or
Iowa to Sioux City, then the said Pacific
Railroad Company is hereby authorized and
required to construct railroad and telegraph
from said Sioux City upon the most direct
and practicable route to a point on, and SO
as to connect with, the branch railroad and
telegraph in this section hereinbefore men
toned, or with the said Union Pacific Rail
road, said point of junction to be fixed by
the President of the United States, not further
west than the one hundredth meridian of
longitude aforesaid, and on the same terms
and conditions as provided in this act for the
construction of the Union Pacific Railroad as
aforesaid and to complete the same at the
rate of one hundred miles per year; and
should said company fail to comply with the
requirements of this act in relation to the
said Sioux City railroad and telegraph, the
said company shall suffer the same forfeitures
prescribed in relation to the Iowa branch
railroad and telegraph hereinbefore men-
toned.


Sec. Is. And be it further enacted, That
any other railroad company now incorporat-
ed, or hereafter to be Incorporated, shall have
the right to connect their road with the road
and branches provided for by this act at
such places and upon such just and equitable
terms as the President of the United States
may prescribe. Wherever the word company
is used in this act it shall be constructed to
embrace the words their associates, success
sors, and assigns. the same as if the words
had been properly added thereto.


Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That
at any time after the passage of this act all
of the railroad companies named herein, and
asserting hereto. or any two or more of them,
are authorized to form themselves into one
consolidated company; notice of such con-
solidation, in writing, shall be filed in the
Department of the Interior, and such con-
solidated company shall thereafter proceed
to construct said railroad and branches and
telegraph line upon the terms and conditions
provided in this act.


Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That
in case said company or companies shall fail
to comply with the terms and conditions OF
this act, by not completing said road and
telegraph and branches within a reasonable
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and use, but shall permit the same, for an
unreasonable time, to remain unfinished, or
out of repair, and unfit for use, Congress may
pass any act to insure the speedy completion
of said road and branches, or put the same
in repair and use, and may direct the income
of said railroad and telegraph line to be
thereafter devoted to the use of the United
States, to repay all such expenditures caused
by the default and neglect of such company
or companies: Provided, That if said roads
are not completed so as to form continuous
line of railroad, ready for use, from the Mis-
souri, River to the navigable waters of the
Sacramento River, in California, by the first
day Of July, eighteen hundred and seventy
six, the whole of all of said railroads before
mentioned and to be constructed under the
provisions of this act, together with all their
furniture, fixtures, rolling stock, machine
shops, lands, tenements, and hereditaments,
and property of every kind and character,
shall be forfeited to and be taken possession
of by the United States: Provided, That of
the bonds of the United States in this act
provided to be delivered for any and all parts
of the roads to be constructed east of the one