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 384' THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 33, 35. 1859. manner as the legislature of said State may prescribe for the purpose aforesaid, but for no other purpose. Third. That ten entire sections of land, to be selected by the governor of said State, in legal subdivisions, Lan‘:ls_for pub- shall be granted to said State for the purpose of completing the public “° b“*ldmgS· buildings, or for the erection of others at the scat of government, under Salt springs the direction of the legislature thereof Fourth. That all salt springs ?;£l:°”'*’g“°“° within said State, not exceeding twelve in number, with six sections of' ` land adjoining, or as contiguous as may be to each, shall be granted to said State for its use, the same to be selected by the governor thereof within one year after the admission of said State, and when so selected, to be used or dispcmed of on such terms, conditions, and regulations as the proviso_ legislature shall direct: Provided, That no salt spring or land, the right whereof is now vested in any individual or individuals, or which may be hereafter confirmed or adjudged to any individual or individuals, shall by Percentage on this article be granted to said State. Fifth. That five per centum of the land ¤¤J¤s· net proceeds of sales of all public lands lying within said State which shall be sold by Congress after the admission of said State into the Union, after deducting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to said State, for the purpose of making public roads and internal improvements, _[’r<»vis<>- 09n- as the legislature shall direct: Provided, That the foregoing propositions, g;2§;‘;’it?;‘n;"l‘;‘;l; hereinbefore offered, are on the condition that the people of Oregon shall otforcd. provide by an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that said State shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within the same by the United States, or with any regulations Congress may rind necessary for securing the title in said soil to bona tide purchasers thereof; and that in no case shall non-resident proprietors be United States taxed higher than residents. Sixth. And that the said State shall never ¥;‘;P°gg’m tiaxgf tax the lands or the property of the United States in said State: Pmu°,,_ vided, however, That in case any of the lands herein granted to the State Proviso. of Oregon have heretofore been confirmed to the Territory of Oregon for the purposes specified in this act, the amount so confirmed shall be deducted from the quantity specified in this act. Residue to be- Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, until Congress shall otherwise
 * g“8;?.QQ;3§;"‘ direct, the residue of the Territory of Oregon shall be, and is hereby,

my g- incorporated into, and made a part of the Territory of Washington. APPROVED, February 14, 1859. Feb. 18, 1859. Cun. XXXV.-——An Act for the Relij of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. Be it enacted hy the Senate cmd House of Representatives of the United Pm8mb1C_ States of America in Congress assembled, That whereas the State of Mississippi, by its act approved on the twenty-eighth of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and the State of Alabama, by its act approved on the first of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, did transfer to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company the lands which were granted to said 1850, 0h_ 61, g, q_ States under the provisions of the act of Congress approved the twentieth vol- ix- p- 467- September, eighteen hundred and fifty, to aid in the construction of a rail- '1‘ransfers by road from Mobile to the mouth of the Ohio River, the said transfers of Um S“”°*°f.Al”' said lands so made by said States, respectively, to said company, are bama and Missis-. . . $,,,1,, 00mm8d_ hereby recognized, ratiiied, and confirmed, and the title to all bona fide Time for 6cm_ purchasers of said company are also hereby confirmed ; and that the time paging the md limited by said original act of Congress for the completion of said railroad ¤¤¤¤¤·~‘¤d *0 Sept- is hereby extended, and the said company is allowed further time till the 2°’1865' twentieth of September, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to complete the same, anything in said act to the contrary notwithstanding: Proviso. Provided, neva/rtkckss, That the said Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company be subjected to, and shall comply with all the conditions, restrictions, and limitations contained in the act of Congress above referred to, approved pmvgw, the twentieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty; And provided, That