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 l H- T HIRTY—EIG-HTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 84, 85. 1864. lands hereby granted shall be patented to the state for the uses aforesaid M¢G¤‘¤g<¤j and none other: Provided, That if the said McGregor Western. Railroad X;§*f;‘;£;;[6t0 Company, megssigns, shall fail to complete at liéast twenty miles of ir; twenty miles of sa1d road during each and every year from the ate 0 its accentance of l" "°’*d ““”““uY· the grant provided for in this act, then the state may resume said grant, and so dispose of the same as to secure the completion of a road ou said line and upon such terms, within such time as the state shall determine: Provided, furt/zcr, That if the said roads are not completed within ten years from their several acceptance of this grant, the said lands Lands to revert hereby granted and not patented shall revert to the state. of Iowa for the ,,;.mgdwm,i,1 tm to exceed five years, and upon such terms as the state shall determine; years, &c. And provided, further, That said lands shall not in any manner be dis- Noi to be en~ posed of or encumbered, except as the sarne are patented under the -pro· ' i five years after the ten years aforesaid, then the said lands undisposed of as aforesaid shall revert to the United States. Secretary or Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the governor of said l‘{‘°”l§"*3 WMP state of Iowa shall file or cause to bafiled with the Secretary of the Inte-
 * g;;‘j*:r:‘;l;’[?_ purpose ofseeuring· the completion of the said roads with1n such t1me,·not
 * l'_‘§;fd· °X` visions of this act; and should the state fail to complete said roads within
 * ,]Q';,,};c_s’ rior maps designating the routes of said roads, then it shall be the duty

of the Secretary of the Interior to withdraw from market the lands embraced within the provisions of this act. · Mails to be Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the United States mail shall m;;'Sp°:°d‘ be transported on said roads and branch, under the direction of- the postmuffeddw d°` office department, at such price as congress may by law provide: Pravzded, That until such price IS fixed by law the Postmaster-General shall have power to fix the rate of compensation. Gm? *0 Milli- Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That there be, and is hereby, mgguééxggxl to granted to the state of Minnesota for the purpose of aiding in the consouthern line of struction of a railroad from St. Paul and St. Anthony, via Minneapolis, "°*“°‘ to a convenient point of junction west of the Mississippi, to the southern boundary of the state, in the direction of the mouth of the Big Sioux river, four additional alternate sections of land per mile, to be selected conditions of upon the same conditions, restrictions, and limitations as are contained m gram- the act of.congress·entitled "An act making'21 grant of land to the terr1~ 1g5g-,ch_99_ tory ot Minnesota, in alternate sections, to and in the construction of cer- Vol. xi. p. 195. tain railroads in said territory, and granting public lands, in alternate sec- Lands may be tions, to the state of Alabama, to aid in the construction of a certain ’°l"°°°d* “'h°"‘ railroad in said state," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven: Provided, That the land to be so located by virtue of this section may be selected within twenty miles of the line of said road, but 1n no case at a greater distance therefrom. Armzovan, May 12, 1864. May 12, 1864- CHAP. LXXXV. —An Act concerning the Disposition of Convicls in the Courts 4f Ow _`_—`_"__` United Stateskfbr the Subsislirzg of Persons corgfined in Jails charged with viclaiing M6 Laws of the United States, and for diminishing the Expenses in Relation thereto. _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the a03ft2t)??!;" United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who United States, have been, or who may hereafter be, convicted of crime by any courtof i • · • • • •' V prisonment, m a, d1str1ct·or territory where, at the time of such conwctiong there may be no penitentiary or other prison suitable for the confinement of convicts of the United States, and available therefor; shall be confined during the term for which they have been or may be sentenced, in some suitable prison in a convenient state or territory to— be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be transported and delivered to the warden or keeper of the prison by the marshal of the district or territory
 * 3L{*:)l"’ (1*** the United Qtates -—- not military —-the punishment whereof shall be 1m-