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 52 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 90, 91, 96, 99. 1872. Right mom owner: Provided, That this act shall not apply where there is a valid wpiy in ¤<=r¤¤i¤ written agreement subsistmg, by virtue of which such captam woxild bg °”°s° entitled to possession, nor in any case where. at captain has possession as part owner, obaned gefiogezthe passage of this act. Armzovim, pri, 1*. April 9, 1872. CHAP. XCI. -An Act to settle and quiet the Titles to Lands along the Boundary Line __‘”""‘_""‘ between the States of Georgia and Florida. Be it enacted by the Senatepand House of Representatives of the United ffirles to per- States of America in Congress assembled, That the titles to all lands lying
 * €‘;2l_l%';d;ng‘ south of the line dividing the States of Georgia and Florida, known as

fyO,·;}],1_ so my- as the Orr and WVhitner line, lately established as the true boundary between derived f¤‘<>¤¤ the said States, and north of the line run by Greorgia, known as the Vt atsou line, being all the lands lying between sa1dlmes,be,‘and the samp are hereby, confirmed, so far as the United States has title thereto, m the present owners deriving titles from the State of Georgia. Approved, April 9, 1872. .éB CHAP. XCVI.-jAn Act panting the Right tf W? through the public Lands fer the Construction of a Railroad jrom Great Salt ake t0‘P0rtlaml, Oregon. PW,  612] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives af the United Right °*` my States if America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of aiding granted to the. . · - · p0m,md_ Danes_ m the construction of a railroad and telegraph lme from Portland, 111 the and Salt lake State of Oregon, by the way of Dalles city, to some suitable point on the {gg_ Union Pacific or Central Pacific. railroad in the vicinity of Salt Lake, not graph, with land further east than Green river, with a branch from a suitable point; west of for depots, &<=· the Blue mountains to a suitable point in WVa1la-Walla valley, there are hereby granted to the Portland, Dalles, and Salt Lake Railroad Company, organizer] under articles of incorporation tiled in the office of the secretary of state of Oregon on the twenty-fifth day of March, amio Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-0ne,a11d to their successors and assigns, a strip of land one hundred feet wide on each side of the centre line of said road, and the necessary lands for depots, stations, side-tracks, and other needful uses in operating said road and telegraph, not exceeding forty acres at de;-gg3f:;:? ist any one place: Provided, That the locations for depots, stations, and s1de— to gx0g3mi_ gm tracks shall not exceed for the whole lme of said road more than one location of forty acres for every ten miles of the same, and when made upon surveyed lands shall conform to the government surveys thereoil P1at of located Sec. 2. That said company shall, within six months after the location %‘;°E&’:f 5gm;° of any section of twenty miles or more of their said road, if the same be gw_ ’ upon surveyed land, and if upon unsurveyed land, then within six months after the survey thereof by the United States, file a plat of such located section, together with proof thereofl with the register of the land office for the district wherein said located section may be situated, and upon approval thereof the same shall be noted upon the township plats in said office, and thereafter all lands over which the said line of road shall pass shall be sold, located, or disposed of by the United States, subject to such bclmixhggdto right of way so located as aforesaid: Provided, That the line of said road completed_ sialll be located mthm three years after the passage of this act: And provided jurt/ter, That said road shall be completed withm ten years thereafter. Arpnovxsn, April 12, 1872. AUTH 13, 1872- CHAP. XCIX. ——- An Act to changethe Time for holding the Spring Term ey" the United States C'ircuil and District courts at Harrisonburg, Wrginia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House ¢y” Representatives of the United Time of hold- States of America in Oungress assembled, That instead of the time now
 * 3 the Umm provided for iii the act approved February first, eighteen hundred and