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 364 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 216. 1864. Union Pacino said Union and Pacific Railroad and telegraph line and branches ; and said E:;];;:;:;;? company shall complete the same at the rate of fifty miles per year; the bmnm Provided, That said Union Pacific Railroad Company shall be, and is hereby, released from the construction of said branch. And said com- Bvnds- pany constructing said branch shall not be entitled to receive in bonds an amount larger than the said Union Pacific Railroad Company would be entitled to receive if it had constructed the branch under this act and the act to which this is an amendment ; but said company shall be entitled L?mdS_ to receive alternate sections of land for ten miles in width on each side of the same along the whole length of said branch: And provided, further, 'finlg of com- That if a railroad should not be completed to Sioux City, across Iowa pl¢¥i<>¤- or Minnesota, within eighteen months from the date of this act, then said company designated by the President, as aforesaid, may commence, continue, and complete the construction of said branch as contemplated by the provisions of this act: Provided, however, That if the said cpmpany so designated by the President as aforesaid shall not complete the said branch from Sioux City to the Pacific Railroad within ten years from the Formtuw is passage of this act, then, and in that case, all of the railroad which shall Sm. have been constructed by said company shall be forfeited t0, and become the property of] the United States. Burlington and Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the Burlington ard Mis- NiSS<>¤1‘iRi*;¢¤" souri River Railroad Company, a corporation organized under and by fgagogfy °>`t°“d virtue of the laws of the State of Iowa, be, and hereby is, authorized to extend i[t]s road through the Territory of Nebraska from the point where it strikes the Missouri River, south of the mouth of the Platte River, to some point not further west than the one hundredth meridian of west longitude, so as to connect, by the most practicable route, with the main trunk of the Union Pacific Railroad, or that part of it which runs from Omaha to the said one hundredth meridian of west longitude. And, for the purpose of enableing said Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company to construct that portion of their road herein authorized, the Right of W¤>’· right of way through the public lands is hereby granted to said company for the construction of said road. And the right, power, and authority is hereby given to said company to take from the public lands adjacent to tha line of said road, earth, stone, timber, and other materials for the construction thereofZ Said right of way is granted to said company to the extent of two hundred feet where it may pass over the public lands, including all necessary grounds {br stations, buildings, workshops, depots, machine _ shops, switches, side-tracks, turn-tables, and water-stations. And the bBI;?3‘§g3;;gFé(° United States shall extinguish, as rapidly as may bc, consistent with pub- ` lic policy and the welfare of the said Indians, the Indian titles to all lands falling under the operation of this section and required for the said righu of way and grant of land herein made. Slcc. 19. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of aiding in Lmds gm“t€d' the construction of said road, there be, and hereby is, granted to the said Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, every alternate 860* tion of public land (excepting mineral lands as provided in this act) designuted by odd numbers, to the amount of ten alternate sections per mile on each side of said road, on the line thereof, and not sold, reserved, or otrlierwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or _ homestead claim ma not have attached at the time the line of said road P’°"‘“‘ is definitely fixed: ddravwfeled, That said company shall accept this grant within one year from the passage of this act, by filing such acceptance with the Secretary of the Interior, and shall also establish the line of said road, and file a map thereof with the Secretary of the Interior within one year of the date of said acceptance, when the said Secretary shall with- Commission to draw the lands embraced in this grant from market. benppcinted. Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That whenever said Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company shall have completed twenty cou-