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 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 125,126, 127. 1877. 405 _ Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby instructed to issue _ Patents not who no more patents to said railroadcompany for the lands withdrawn from lsfulfg *"' Mads market, in consequence of the enactment of the sections of said act ;;},2,O;:'v;;‘pB},1{f,d?r hereby repealed, and to withhold from delivery any patents not yet de- · livered for the same. Sec. 3. That upon said Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad Company, L a n ds wi thits successor or successors or assigns, Bling with the Secretary of the d’”"'“ '°° *’P_k’°‘ _ Interior its acceptance of the terms, conditions, and impositions of this  Ol; mm °°’ act, as hereinafter provided, and its execution and delivery of the deeds ’ ° hereinafter specified, all of said lands so withdrawn and undisposed of _ shall be restored to market, by proclamation of the President of the United States, and opened to settlement and purchase under the homestead-laws of the United States only. . Sec. 4. That said railroad-company, its successor or assigns, shall B*°°¤"°Y’l“°° by reconvey, by deed or deeds duly executed, al'l unsold lands patented ;’,€‘1f;§‘gs ‘E;’,:’,P“;},·; to it, in pursuance of thesections hereby repealed, and shall pay into ,,wi,,_p the Treasury of the United States the proceeds of all such lands sold and conveyed prior to the passage of this act; and that if said company Contracts to be shall have any uncompleted contracts for the sale of any portion of such °**“°°]°d· - lands, the same shall be forthwith canceled, if the contracting party or parties consent thereto in writing filed with the Secretary of the Interior; and if any portion of the purchase-money has been paid thereon, the same shall be refunded to the contracting party or parties. Sec. 5. That the aoceptance of said company, or its successor or Acceptance or - assigns, of the terms, conditions, and impositions of this act, shall be *l¤¤¤°*> bY¤¤l*°=¤l signified in writing, under the corporate seal of said company, duly exe- °°"’p"“y‘ cuted, pursuant to the direction of its board of directors tirst had and obtained, which acceptance shall be made `within ninety days from the Time of reconpassage of this act. And the deed or deeds hereinbefore referred to shall *'¢>S’=¤¤<=° ¤¤d¤‘<·>l¤*y· be executed and delivered within six mon ths from the passage of this act, "‘°“t· and both deeds and acceptance shall he deposited with the Secretary of the Interior. And the payment of the money, and the cancellation of the contracts hereinbefore specified, shall also be made within a like period of six months from the date of the approval of this uct. Approved, March 3, 1877. CHAP. 126.-An act to amend an act entitled “An act granting the right of way MMC], 3, 1e;77_ through the public lands to the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company,approved ———-.-.~.. June eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqlrescntatlvcs of the United States of America. in Congress assembled, That an act entitled "Au act 1812, eh. 364. granting the right of way through the public lands to the Denver and 17 Sm-. 339. Rio Grande Railway Company/’ approved June eighth, eighteen hun- A"‘°"‘*°d· `tired and seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended by making the second proviso in said act read as follows, to wit: "Pr0·vided, That said company shall complete its railway as far Time for comsouth as Santa Fe within ten years of the passage of this act, and rlsti¤2_D¤¤v¤¤w<i shall complete fifty miles additional south of said point in each year  S;$;£,‘;dR“‘1' thereafter; and in default thereof the rights and privileges herein y ` granted shall be rendered null and void so far as respects the unlinished portion of said road." . Approved, March 3, 1877. _ CHAP. 127.-An act for the relief of certain settlers on the public lands. March 3, 1877. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rqarescntatives of the United Ame, pp. 54, States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for 59 _ homestead and preemption settlers on the public lands, or pre-emptiou mC°;;‘,;}}c “°f;g’£ settlers on Indian reservations, where crops were destroyed or seriously may, be ,,;,8,,,,,, injured by grasshoppers in the year eighteen hundred and seventy- therefrom.