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 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 122. 1871. 579 insuring the carrying the mails, troops, munitions of war, supplies, and ¤¤m¤¤‘Y¤¤dP°¤* stores of the United Shit8S, HO act of the company nor any law of any migaus Ns__ State or Territory shall impede, delay, or prevent the said company from tion for ilioo Unitpgrforming its obligations to the United States in that regard: Provided, gd $“‘“°§ ':£"° That said road shall be subject to the use of the United States for postal, eégltgzfcm military, and all other governmental services, at fair and reasonable p¤¤¤¤ti¤¤· rates of compensation, not to exceed the price paid by private parties for the same kind of service, and the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for the purpose aforesaid. Sec. 20. That it shall not be lawful for any of the directors, either in N0 dif¤¤¤>¤‘*¤ their individual capacity or as members of an incorporated or joint-stock company, to make any contracts or agreements with the said Texas any parthfthe Pacitic Railroad Company for the construction, equipment, or running of mdits road, or to have any interest therein; and all such contracts or agreements are hereby declared null and void, and all money or property rcceived under such contracts or agreements may be recovered back for the benefit of the company by any stockholder. Sec. 21. That any railroad company whose route lies across the route R?il*°°d °°m· of the Texas Pacino railroad may cross the same, and for the purpose §°;‘Q'$f‘,,;fl,';y°'°“ of crossing shall have the right to acquire at the double minimum price may have all lands, whether of the United- States or granted by this act, which l““dS¤&°· shall be needed for a right of way two hundred feet wide through said lands, and for depots, stations, side-tracks, and other needful purposes, not exceeding for such purposes forty acres at any one station. Sec. 22. That the New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Vicksburg Railroad New 0i-leans, Company, chartered by the State of Louisiana, shall have the right to £;§°{‘n§Q;‘§§{,g connect by the most eligible route to be selected by said company with Raiimd co. the said Texas Pacific railroad at its eastern terminus, and shall have mai; :§P¤°°*d the right of way through the public land to the same extent granted Ed hagzl;-(gght hereby to the said Texas Pacific Railroad Company; and in aid of its ofway. construction from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, thence by the way of wEi‘:;‘;?;1;2if Alexandria, in said State, to connect with the said Texas Pacific Rail- gtyuqgiggh ` road Company at its eastern terminus, there is hereby granted to said company, its successors and assigns, the same number of alternate sections of public lands per mile, in the State of Louisiana, as are by this act granted in the State of California, to said Texas Pacific Railroad Company; and said lands shall be withdrawn from market, selected, Engdstv he and patents issued therefor, and opened for settlement and preemption, ;:”k;:"g'c_'°m upon the same terms and in the same manner and time as is provided for and required from said Texas Pacific Railroad Company, within said State of California: Provided, That said company shall complete the b Road ppc; to whole of said road within five years from the passage of this act. °°°mP H ‘ Seo. 23. That, For the purpose of connecting the Texas Pacific railroad ci§=<¤i;:i?;;n§* with the city of San Francisco, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company company may of California is hereby authorized (subject to the laws of California) to construct a road construct a line of railroad from a point at or near Tehachapa Pass, by way of Los Angeles, to the Texas Pacific railroad at or near the Colorado Rgilpgud with river, with the same rights, grants, and privileges, and subject to the San Francisco. same limitations, restrictions, and conditions as were granted to said Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California, by the act of July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-six: Provided, however, That Provtao. this section shall in no way affect or impair the rights, present or prospective, of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company or any other ra.11- road company. A2rn0v1·:1>, March 3, 1871.