Year: 1866

Senate, shall be- and is hereby, authorized
to appoint a surveyor-general for Idaho,
whose annual salary shall be three thousand
dollars, and whose power, authority, and
duties shall be the same those provided
by law for the encouragement of Oregon.
He shall have proper allowances for clerk
hire, office rent, and fuel not exceeding what
is now allowed by law TO the surveyOr-gen-
eral of Oregon, and he shall locate his office
at Boise City in said Territory of Idaho.


Approved June %, 1866.


CHAP. CIVILIAN ACT 10 extend the


Time for the Reversion to the United


States of the Lands granted by Congress


to aid III the Construction of a Railroad


from Amboy, by Hillsdale and Lansing. To


some point on or near Traverse Bay iIt


the State of Michigan, and for the Com


pletion of said Road.


BE it enacted by the Senate dad House Of Rep
resentatires of the United States Of America in
Congress assembled, That the time limited by
tie fourth section of act entitled An act max
ing grant of alternate Sc to of the public lands


to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction
of certain railroads in said State and for other pur
poses" approved june three, eighteen hundred and


ysix for the completion of the railroad from Am
boy by Hillsdale and Lansing TO some point on OF
near Traverse bay shall be- and hereby is revived
and extended for the period of seven years from and
after the t rd day of June, thousand eight hun
dTed and sixtysiX and that said grants shall



ring that period it had been provided in said
fourth section of said act of June three eighteen
hundred and ifty-six: Provided, That the Amboy,
lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad Company,
cooperation organized under the laws of the State
of Michigan, shall forfeit all right to aid grant,
or any part thereof which it may now have, or
which may hereafter be conferred upon it, by the
legislature OF the State OF Michigan If and when
ever the said company shan fail, in whole or in
part fully and completely to perform any of the
following conditions, that IS & TO say FIRST FIRST to
the road-bed OF said road between Owasso and
Saginaw City, Sd that the same shall be in readl-
ness for the ties and iron by the first day of Febru
airy, eihgteen hundred and slXty-SeVen; Second,
to fully complete said road from OwassO to Sagi-
nav City, so that the same shall be in readiness
for the runin of trains by the first day of Novem
ber eighteen hundred and sixty-seven Third.
to fully complete in like manner twenty miles of
said road in each and every year after the said
first dav of November, eighteen hundred and six
tv-seyen and to fully complete the entire road by
the time limited by this act And provided fur
iEer That in case of failure of said AmbOy, Lans
ing and Traverse Bay Company to perform any
of the above conditions by the respective times
limited therefor the legislature of the State of
Michigan may at its first session after any such
failure confer the said grant upon some other
railroad corporation corporations, upon such
terms and conditions as the legislature may see
fit, to carry out the purposes OF the SAID act of
June three eighteen hundred and ff y-siX and
when so conferred. sucn corporation or corpora
tOnS shall be entitled to have and enjoy all of the
said grant, which shall not then have been law
fully opposed of, to the same extent and in the
same manner and for the same purposes, as if the
same had been orr ginally conferred upon such
corporal on or corporations. And any such rail
road corporation or corporations, whether now
organized or hereafter to be organized upon
which said grant may be so conferred in whole or
In part, may receive the same without prejudice
TO any land grant other rights franchise
previously acquired But in no case shall such
corporation corporations be entitled t1 receive
more than ten sections of land to the mile, for
that portion of said road which NAV be cOnSOidat-
ed In accordance with the provisions of this act
And provided further, That If the Legislature
fShau IN any such case of failuilure,
confer said grant above provided for,
then the said lands, much thereof shall
then remain not lawfully disposed of shall be sub
Ject to the disposal and future control OF said leg
slgture as provided n section three OF said act of
June three eigeteen hundred and tifty-SiX until
the expiration OF the time limited by this act.
But in case of said legislature shall III such
fail to so con er said grant then the said lands
shall revert to the United States.


Sec And be it further enacted, That the
Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad CmOpany may
change the western terminus of its road to some
point on Lake Michigan, at or south of Grand
Traverse Bay; and any railr ad corporations
ha ing right to the pective land grants speci-
fed in tne said act of June three. eighteen hun
dred and ffty-siX located in the lower peninsula
of the State of Michigan, may un tie and and con-
tr$ ct with each other or with any other railroad
corporation corporations for the construction and
their routes without prejudice to any land grants
or other rights o franchises rreviOusly acquired.
And any and all such corporations hereby au-
tize to change the location of their lines of road
cons to change their respect
i've termu otherwise than is authorized by this act
aud whenever any chan of terminus or / cation
OF line IS made provided for in this act the cor
poratIOn OF corporations making such change shall
ME IN the General Land Office maps defiEitely
showing SUCH change q d the line of road adODted.
Provided, That tn road mentioned in the first Sec
ton OF this act shall he west side of Saginaw
river and that the principal depot shall be located
ID the nOrthe portion of the plat of Saginaw river
so as beJt to accommodate the cities of Saginaw and
East Saginaw.