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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commission created by an act entitled “,” approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, shall be and is hereby, continued until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, for the execution of the duties prescribed by this act.

, March 3, 1835.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisoes of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the “,” passed on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby further suspended, until the end of the next session of Congress.

, March 3, 1835.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the president, directors, and stockholders organized in virtue of an act of incorporation from the governor and legislative council of the territory of Florida, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct said road upon the public lands of the United States, so far as the line of said road has been or shall be made to pass through the same.

. And be it further enacted, That there be granted to the said railroad company, the land over which the said road shall pass, and thirty feet on each side of the same; and the said company shall have the privilege of using the timber on the public lands, for one hundred yards on each side of said railroad, in the construction and repair of said road.

. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and is hereby, granted to the said railroad company, ten acres of land, at the junction of the St. Marks and Waculla rivers, (the point where the road terminates,) exclusive of such portions as shall be actually improved by individuals, and now in their occupancy, and also exclusive of such portions as, in the opinion of the President, it may be expedient to preserve for the national defence, or other public use: Provided, nevertheless, That the several grants contained in this act, shall revert to the government of the United States, unless the said railroad be begun in five years from the passage of this act, and completed within ten years thereafter.

. And be it further enacted, That the foregoing provisions shall extend to two companies organized under the authority of acts of the legislature of Alabama, and of the governor and legislative council of the territory of Florida, for a railroad from Pensacola to the Chatahoochee river near Columbus in Georgia, and to such other point designated in the act of the legislature of Alabama, in said state.