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 306 FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 34, 35. 1875. Claim to be filed said receiver within one year after the passage of this act_:_A1u1p•·0. Within °¤° Y°“’· vided further, That this grant shall not extend to any reservation of the t6$“°:°°°:e§gr$§ United States, nor prejudme any valld adverse right 0I'_0l8:1ll.\, if such tions,n0raifectad- exist, to said land, or any part thereof, nor preclude a Judicial examiv¤r¤¤ ris!¤¢¤· nation and adjustment thereof. _ _ _ Sec. 2. That whenever it shall have been determined hythe said register and the said receiver, or on appeal by the Commissioner of the General Land Office or Secretary of the Interior that any tract has been occupied as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the suryeyor-general Survey of claims- for said Territory to cause the said claims to  surveyed m aoeordanee with the lines of such occupancy, and to furmsh_ approved plats of the same, upon the receipt and approval of which said plats, and the- fieldpamut; when to notes thereof by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, patents bo issued shall issue as in other cases. Lands not com Sec. 3. That any part or parts of said designated lands that are not PM *`°1‘ *"°¤"5’ shown, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land §:1?;'gtQ{;m1;;,°P°“ Onice, to have been so occupied for twenty years, shall be_held by him ` as open to settlement under the provisions of the preemption or homestead laws of the United. States, and patents_may be 1ssued_therefor for any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and sixty that parties complying with said legal provisions may desire to hold: Pro- Prm mh, of 0c_ vided, That all existing occupants who have settled on said lands within cup,,,,,,, M lcs, a period of less than twenty years shall have the prior mght to acquire than twenty years. the same under the homestead laws of the United States. Approved, February 5, 1875. _ l· AP. 5.——An act antin the rl f wa nd e ot- ounds to the Ore on cgentra?Pa.ciiio Railway Coipany thitiugh thz Iiubliel lgndgrof the United States, from Winnemucoa, in the State of Nevada, to the Columbia River, vie Portland, in the State of Oregon. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of aiding Gr ant of right in the construction of a railway and telegraph-line from a point at or of Way Md ¤¤- near Winnemucca, on the Central Pacino Railroad, in the State of Ne- 5’§;';‘;“a§°P°fg§f,f‘, vada; thence northwesterly to and across Goose Lake Valley, and by 1,,,,;,,,,,,. Comp,,,,, way of Sprague River Valley, to the waters of the Middle Fork of the Willamette River, in the Cascade Mountains; thence down said river, on the north side, to Springfield; thence crossing to and continuing upon the west side of said river to the waters of the Columbia River, via Portland, Oregon, there is hereby granted to the Oregon Central Pacific Railway Company, organized under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Oregon on the sixteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and to their successors and assigns, as strip of land, one hundred feet wide, on each side of the central line of said road, through the public lands, and the necessary lands for depots, sta- Limmmon of tions, sidemracks,. and other needful uses in operating said road and ,,,,,,1,, for dsp0h_ telegraph, not exceeding twenty acres at any one place: Provided, That gmu,,4,,,&c, the locations for depots, stations, and side-tracks shall not exceed for the whole line of said road more than one location of twen ty awves for every ten miles of the same, and when made upon surveyed ésmllt shall Power of States conform to the Government surveys thereof: And pr-omidedfurtlier, That 33¥§“*¤t'&,°°¤* of the State or States, within the limits of which said road or- any part p" w"' thereof shall be hereafter situated, shall have the power to regulate and limit the cost of transportation of persons or freight over the same. lnfgggfstgljiggggg SEO. 2.- Tibet said company shall, within six months after the location twentymim when of any section of twenty miles or more of their said road, if the s21H1B to bg mc.;be upon surveyed lands, and if upon unsurveyed lands, then within si! months after the survey thereof by the United States, tile a plat of such located section, together with proof thereof, with the register of the land-ofii;e for the district wherein said located section may be situated,