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 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 220, 221, 226. 1872. 163 one, entitled “An act to enable organized counties and townships to vote disapproved, exaid to any railroad, and to provide for the payment of the same," be, and 0**% &¤· the same is hereby, disapproved and annulled, except in so far as is herein otherwise provided. But the passage of this act shall not invali- Dakota Southdate or impair the organization of the company heretofore organized for °}'“ ‘§R·,C°, d°‘ the construction of the Dakota Southern railroad, leading from Sioux ;,;l;;;,_eg?d°°r' city, Iowa, by way of Yankton, the capital of said Territory, to the west *<>f¤¤ 0* ¢¤¤¤¤[¤¤ line of Bon Homme county, or any vote that has been or may be given Qipfiglissggggfxng by the counties of Union, Clay, Yankton, and Bon Homme, or any town- struction, not inship granting aid to said railroad, or any subscription thereto, or any thing "“u‘i“*°d· authorized by, and that may have been done in pursuance oi; the provisions of the aforesaid act of the legislative assembly of said Territory toward the construction and completion of said railroad; and the said Dakota Southern Railroad Company, as organized under and in conformity to the acts of the legislative assembly of said Territory, is hereby recognized and declared to be a legal and valid corporation; and the provisions of the act of said legislative assembly first aforesaid, so far as the same authorize, and for the purpose of validating any vote of aid and subscriptions to said company for the construction, completion, and equipment of the main stem of said railroad, between the termini aforesaid, are hereby declared to be and remain in full force, but no further, and for no other purpose whatsoever. Sec. 2. That for the purpose of enabling the said Dakota Southern Right ot way Railroad Company to construct its said road through the public lands be-  iéfagfgé tween the termini aforesaid, the right of way through the said public to Said ccf2m,-.,- lands is hereby granted to said company to the extent of one hundred tionfeet in width on each side of said road: Provided, That nothing in this Conditions, act shall relieve said Dakota Southern Railroad Company from con- $fé;,";§;_°°“"' structing and completing said railroad in accordance with the conditions and stipulations under which the citizens of the counties therein named voted aid to said railroad in accordance with the laws of said Territory, approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one: Pro- Amount or vided further, That said Dakota Southern Railroad Company shall issue, ;;*£‘t;°cb° Ljteq to the respective counties and townships voting aid to said railroad, paid &c_ °° I " up certificates of stock in the same in amounts equal to the sums voted by the respective counties and townships. Approved, May 27, 1872. CHAP. CCXXI. -An Act to change the Name ry` the Schooner La Pette to La Petite. May 27, 1872. · Be it enacted by the Senate and Hama of Representatives of the United Name of States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of the schooner schooner “La La Pette, of Huron, Erie county, State of Ohio, be, and is hereby, £°§{‘*,’L gizagié, changed from its present name to that of La Petite.` Approved, May 27, 1872. CHAP. CCXXVI. -·-An Act for the Relief of certain Ojtcers of the Navy. May 287 18.,2 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in conformity with and Certain navy to carry into effect the recommendation and conclusions of the board of ggifgs ,t’cb"t;°' officers organized in pursuance of the “Resolution for the relief of cer- origimilpoéition tain officers of the navy," approved July first, eighteen hundred and gil {MVK liS¤·383 seventy, the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, author- °X`"' p` ized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to restore Commodore Joseph F. Green to his original position on the navy list, next Joseph p-_ below Rear-Admiral Boggs; to promote Commodore John DeCamp to Gwen, {chil De his ori inal relative position ·as a rear-admiral on the retired list; to pro- mote Commodore Charles W. Pickering to the grade of commodore on the retired list, with the retired pay of his advanced rank; to advance