Year: 1872

| thorough aud substantial manner, il shall
then bc the duty of the Governor to issue
and deliver TO tho said company the bonds
1 herein provided for to the amount of ten
| thousand dollars per mile for each and eve
| ry mile of said twenty-five miles of said
road. Then and thereafter, so soon ald 80
often as said companies, or either Of them,
| shall complete ten miles of their road, and
| equip and put the same in running order,
| il shall be the duty of the Governor to dc
liver to said companies, respectively, the
bonds hereinbeforc provided, at the rate OF
ten thousand dollars per mile for each and
every mile Of the said roads, in like man
ner and under the same restrictions as
hereinbefore provided, until the said roads
shall be completed to said point of june
tion.


SEt. g. That section five of said act be
so amended as to read as follows; "That
the Legislature of the State of Texas, if
vested with the constitutional power to do
so, nay at any time before the first day Of
January, A. ID. 1874, substitute for the
bonds hereinbcfore donated, a grant of the
public lands of the State to the amount of
twenty four sections to the mile, TO each of
| said companies, respectively, for each and
every mile of road built by said compani-
es, respectively after the passage of this act,
in lieu of said bonds, in like manner and
under the same restrictions as provided
in this act Provided, That if any of the
bonds herein providedI shall bo issued be-
fore the Legislature shall make such sub.
stitution, then Sc id bonds shall be redeem
ed and cancelled, as provided in sections
six and seven of this act And prOuided
further, that if the Legislature shall not
have made such substitution Of lands for
the said bonds by the first day Of Janua-
ry, 1874, then the said company shall have
the right, at any time thereafter, when the
Legislature shall have power to grant the
public lands in aid of internal improve
ments, to deliver 10 the Governor of tho
State any bonds which may have been de-
livcred to them under the provisions CT
this act, and shall receive therefor grant
of the public lands to the amount and in
the manner provided in section six of this
act"


SIC. 4. Shat section eight Of said act
shall he amended so as to read as follows :
'That should either of said companies fail
to complete its road to the said point of
junction by the first day of January, 1874,
tueu Sulu COUpuultS SHuil tuhS
no further benefit under the prOvi sions Of
this act"


Sec 5. That the said Southern Pacific
Railroad Company and the Southern Trans
continental Railway Company are hereby
empowered to conform the guage of their
several roads to such guage as may be
adopted by the Texas Pacific Railroad
Company, chartered under act of Congress
of the United States, March 3, 1871.


Sec. 6. That il is the intent and purpose
of this act and of the act of which this act
is amcndatory, that each Of the said rail-
road companies shall be entitled to three
millions of dollars of said bonds, and that
either of said companies shall receive
more than ten thousand dollars per mile
for the construction Of their roads to the
said point of junction, and the said COM
panics shall be entitled TO receive ten
thousand dollars per mile for single
track railroad westward from the point Of
junction towards FL Paso until the whole
amount of bonds granted shall be consum-
ed, but in no event shall the amount of
bonds to be issued under the provisions of
the act of which this act is amendatory
exceed six millions of dollars.


SEC. 7. The said railroad companies shall
be subject to no limitation of time in the
construction of their roads other than is
provided in this act and the act Of which
tn act is amendatory.


SIC. 8. Anything contained in the act of
which this is amcndatory, and in other
laws or parts Of laws, contrary to or in
consistent with the provisions of this act
is hereby repealed and this oct shall take
effect from and after Us passage. Proviso
added Said railroad companies, or either
of them, shall contruct the main line from
the junction in the direction of Ell Paso at
the rate of one hundred miles year until
the subsidy is exhausted, or forfeit all fur
ther rights under this bill.