Year: 1873




WE give below the dill introduced on
the 14th by Senator Irish, and referred to
the Committee on Railroads, comforting the
ST. Croix and Superior land grant on the
North Wisconsin (Mr. Baldwin's) Railway
Company.


This bill is the most Objectionable that
can possibly be conceived, in that it leaves
the State and the inhabitants of Northern
Wisconsin entirely at the mercy of the cor
poration. 1t fixes no time when the road is
to be completed; fixes no place where it
shall touch; nor compels the Company to
even commence the building Of the road.
1t is hardly possible that such bill will
pass the Legislature.


No 9, SENArE-A BILL.


To provide for the speedy execution of the trust
sumed by the State of Wisconsin by its acceptance
of the grants of land made by Congress- by acts ap-
proved June Sd, 1855, and May 9Th 1864.


The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact follows:


Section l. There is hereby granted to the North
Wisconsin Railway Company, all the right title and
interest which the State of Wisconsin has may
hereafter acquire in and the lands granted said
State by of Congress approved June 3rd, 1856,
and May 5th 1864, to aid in the construction of a
railroad from the Saint Croix Lake or River between
Townships twenty-five and thirty aud to the west end
of Lake Superior and to Bayfield, for the purpose OF
enabling said company to complete the railroad here
tofore partially constructed by them from said Saint
Croix River Lake aforesaid to Superior City the
end of Lake Superior and to Bayfield,, this grant
being however upon the express condition that the
said Company shall proceed Immediately with the con-
struction of said road and shall construct the at
the rate of forty miles each year until the same is
completed.


Sec . The said North Wisconsin Railway Company
shall within six years from the passage of this act,
complete said road from point opposite Red Wing,
Minnesota, from the city of Prescott, Wisconsin,
said points both being between said townships twenty
five and thiry-one, named in said acts of Congress,
and shall on before the first day of January, 1874,
construct, complete and put in operation said road
from the western terminus thereof now constructed
to the village of River Falls Pierce county, Wisconsin
Sec 3. When said company shall have completed
the first sixty miles of said road from Saint Crox Rv-
er or Lake it shall commence at Lake Superior and
forty continuous miles of said road toward
Saint Croix River or Lake.


Sec. 4. The Governor is hereby authorized and dl-
rected upon the presentation to him. of satisfactory
proof that the first forty continuous miles of said road
have been completed in accordance with said acts of
Congress- to issue and deliver, cause to be issued
and delivered to said company, patents in due form
from the said State for fve hundred and twenty
tons of said land, and thereafter upon the completion
OF any twenty continuous miles OF said road he shall
issue and deliver cause to be issued and delivered
TO said company patents for two hundred sections of
said land.


Sec S. The said company shall within sixty days
from and after the passage of this act file with the
secretary of state, resolution duly adopted by its
board of directors, accepting this grant upon the
terms and conditions herein contained and shall also
within said sixty days. give to the State of Wisconsin
such security for the completion Of said road in ac
cordance with the provisions of said acts OF Congress
and of this act as shall be required BY the Governor,
and upon the failure of said company to bile said reso-
luton and give said security within the time here
inbefore limited this act shall be of effect far
it grants to said North Wisconsin Railway Company,
any interest in or right to said grants.


Sec s. If the said North Wisconsin Railway Com
pany shall fail fill said resolution and to give said
security provided in the preceding section, 1t shall
be the duty of the Governor the agent of the state
to proclaim forfeiture by the said company of all
rights and privileges under this act, and thereupon
any other railway company that shall frst after said