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 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 436, 437. 1872. 393 liquors on said lands, under pain of forfeiture of title thereto; and due this act to connotice of this provision shall be given in the advertisement offering said @9 9 muse P'°‘ A lubiting sale of lands for Sala' intoxicating Sec. 6. That the commissioners to be appointed by the Secretary of liquors thereon, the Interior, under the provisions of this act, shall receive compensation ““§‘;Q,gQ,mc0,. for their services at the rate of eight dollars for each day aetnally engaged in uavsrnssmem,. in the duties herein designated, in addition to the amount paid by them for WY °*` al? actual travelling and other necessary expenses. {§(§§’g,;f,jg‘*’ Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDXXXVII. ——- An Act to grant the Rf ht of Way through the public Lands to June 10, 1872. the Eastern Nevada Railgoad Company. """"—"" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uizited States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of aiding mgm or way the Eastern Nevada Railroad Company, the same being a corporation *}¤*<>¤sh tm I>¤b· organized under the laws of the State of Nevada, to construct and operate  :f:;'°E,§:g$°d a railroad from the town of Elko to the town of Hamilton city, all in Nevada LLB,. Nevada, the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is, C°·i hereby, granted to said Eastern Nevada Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, for the construction of a railroad as proposed; and the right and_w take is hereby given to said corporation to take from the public lands adjacent Q“d’¥g;;l to the line of said road material for the construction thereof Said way J is granted to said railroad to the extent of one hundred feet in width on each side of said road where it may pass through the public domain ; also, all necessary ground for station buildings, work—shops, depots, Extent of machine-shops, switches, side—tracks, turn—tab1es, and water stations, not g'“"“‘ to exceed twenty acres, not mineral lands, for each ten miles of the entire length of said road: Provided, That the right herein granted shall oem mass not preclude the construction of other roads through any canon, defile, or Rgzugitgt aSS· il . P SEO. 2. That the acceptance of this act by the said Eastern Nevada dehdttobe ac; Railroad Company shall be signified in writing, under the corporate seal gsiling Lzygégg of said company, duly executed pursuant to the direction of its board of and map ogy10C;. directors first had and obtained, which acceptance shall be made within ¤i<>¤ filedone year after the passage of this act, and not afterward, and shall be deposited with the Sec1’etary of the Interior; and within the same period the said company shall also file with said Secretary of the Interior a map of the definite location of the entire line of the road, and the said secretary shall thereupon take the requisite steps, by withdrawal or otherwise, to protect said right of way: Provided, however, That the entire line of Entire mad to said road, in manner in accordance with its charter, shall be fully com- b€tiQ¤*E1°€€d pleted within two years from date of approval of this act, or in default ygug w° thereof, the right of way hereby granted shall be forfeited and revert to the United States. Approved, June 10, 1872.