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 E i 68 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 81. 1864. bridges, tum-outs, watering-places, depots, equipments, furniture, and all other appurtenances of a first-class railroad, patents shall issue conveying the right and title to said lands to the said company entitled thereto, on each side 6f the road, sofar as the same is completed, and coterminous with said completed section, not exceeding the amount aforesaid, and patents shall in like manner issue as each twenty miles of said road is completed: Provided, however, That no patents shall issue for any of said lands unless there shall be presented to the Secretary of the Interior a statement, verified on oath or affirmation by the president of said c9m· Cmiicm of pany, and certified by the governor of the state of Wisconsin, that such $§S€gX§{;°r °f twenty miles have been completed in the manner required by this act, and setting forth with certainty the points where such twenty miles bevin and where the same end; which oath shall be taken before a judge o? 2. court of record of the United States. Lands to b¤ Sec. 8. And be it further eenacted, That the said lands hereby granted gggzgézzi fj} shall, when patented as provided in section seven of this act, be subject the roads. to the disposal of the companies respectively entitled thereto, for the purposes aforesaid, and no other, and the said railroads be, and shall remain, Rqudsjo be public highways for the use of the government of the United States, free £,‘;bg;Tg‘;‘;."Q'1f6 from all toll or other charge, for the transportation of any property or Umm States. troops of the United States. Roadgwhen Sec. 9. And 6c it further enacted, That if said road mentioned in the to be completed. third sectiqn aforesaid is not completed within tem years from the time of uniiffiwjfggsrt the passage of this act, as provided herein, no further patents shall be m the United issued to said company for said lands, and no further sale shall be made, S*°°€S· and the lands unsold shall revert to the United States. APPROVED, May 5, 1864. May 5, 1864. CHAP. LXXXI-4n Act to amend "A7I Act to  the   of the City of Washmgt0n," pasped Blayfijkoen, cnghteen hundred and twenty. Vol. iii. p. 587- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Section eight Shstes of America in Uongress assembled, That the first paragraph of °f *"°'m¤* m section eight of "An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of °m°nd€d' Washingt0n," passed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, be 1865, ch, 43, amended so as to read as follows : That the said corporation shall have full Pm, P- 434- power and authority to lay taxes on particular wards, parts, or sections of imT?;:c:mfo;g:ca1 the city, for their particular local improvements, and to cause the curbmgetg; “fm;{ge’ stones to be set, the foot and carnage ways to be graded and paved, or so drainage. much thereof as they may deem best, and the necessary sewerage and drainage facilities to be introduced under and upon the whole or any portion of any avenue, street, or alley, and also to cause the same to be suitably paved and repaired, and to be at all times properly cleaned and watered, and also to cause lamps to be erected therein, and to light the same, and to pay the cost thereof out of the funds of the ward in which such improvement-shall be made; this provision not to be construed as repealing, but being intended as auxiliary to the power they already possess to make local improvements on the application of the owners of property benefited thereby. Perm to be Sqc. 2. And be it further enacted, That immediately upon the approval appointed to see of this acl: the said corporation shall designate soma proper officcr. thereof 3‘J¤j5'fl°‘;';'ag:€d whose duty it shall be to see that the provisions of this act are properly koptin hpair, ’ executed, and that the principal avenues and streets of the said city arc &¤· so cleaned and watered as to ·be at all times reasonably clean ahd free from dust;` aud also to keep the pavements and side-walks upon said avenues and streets at all times in suitable and proper repair; and it shall further be the duty of the said corporation to take such measures as they shall deem wisc to promote some uniform and general system of drainage for said city.