and in case any subdivison or subdivisions shall remain unsold, the sale shall be postponed from time to time until the entire tract shall be disposed of as herein before provided. No. 37. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following Acts of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned : I...AN ACT granting the right of way through the public lands to construct and maintain a railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way through the public lands is hereby granted to Daniel P. Holland, the proprietor of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, his associates, successors and assigns, for the construction of a railroad in the States of Florida and Alabama from the present terminus of said railroad on the Apalachicola River, in the State of Florida, through the States of Florida and Alabama, to the city of Mobile, Alabama; and from a point on the line of said railroad to the city of Pensacola; and from a point opposite the corporate limits of the city of Jacksonville, on the Saint John's River, to the city of Saint Augustine, Florida; and the right, power, and authority are hereby granted to said Daniel P. Holland, his successors, assigns, or associates, to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said railway, to the extent of one hundred feet in width on each side of the central line of said road where it may pass through the public lauds, material for the construction and maintenance thereof; and the necessary grounds for stations and depots, or other necessary places, such as turn-outs and water-stations, are hereby granted to said Daniel P. Holland his successors or assigns, to an amount not exceeding twenty acres for each ten miles in length of main line of railroad where it may pass through the public lands: Provid d, That within one year from the passage of this act the said Daniel P. Holland, proprietor of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, his successors, assigns, or associates, shall file with the Secretary of the Interior his acceptance of this act and the map of the routes exhibiting the line of the road, and the right to take material shall cease upon the completion of the said road. SEC. 2. That said railroad shall be a post-route and a military road. and Congress at any time may fix rates of tariff for troops, materials of war, and mails, and may add to, alter, or amend this act. SEC. 3. That all acts and parts of acts conflicting with this act be, and and in case any subdivison or subdivisions shall remain unsold, the sale shall be postponed from time to time until the entire tract shall be disposed. of as herein before provided. No 37. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following Acts of Congress are published for the information and government of all concerned : LAN ACT granting the right of way through the public lands to construct and maintain a railroad. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way through the public lands is hereby granted to Daniel P. Holland, the proprietor the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, his associates, successors and assigns, for the construction of a railroad in the States of Florida and Alabama from the present terminus of said railroad on the Apalachicola River, in the State of Florida, through the States of Florida and Alabama, to the city of Mobile, Alabama; and from a point on the line of said railroad to the city of Pensacola; and from a point opposite the corporate limits of the city of Jacksonville, on the Saint John's River, to the city of Saint Augustine, Florida; and the right, power, and authority are hereby granted to said Daniel P. Holland, his successors, assigns, or associates, to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said railway, to the extent of one hundred feet in width on each side of the central line of said road where it may pass through the public lands, material for the construction and maintenance thereof; and the necesSary grounds for stations and depots, or other necessary places, such turn-outs and water-stations, are hereby granted to said Daniel P. Holland his successors or assigns, to an amount not exceeding twenty acres for each ten miles in length of main line of railroad where it may pass through the public lands: Provid d, That within one year from the passage of this act the said Daniel P. Holland, proprietor of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, his successors, assigns, or associates, shall file with the Secretary of the Interior his acceptance of this act and of the routes exhibiting the line of the road, and the right to take material shall cease upon the completion of the said road. the map SEC. 2. That said railroad shall be a post-route and a military road. and Congress at any time may fix rates of tariff for troops, materials of war, and mails, and may add to, alter, or amend this act. SEC. 3. That all acts and parts of acts conflicting with this act be, and SEC. 4. That if the said road shall not be completed and put in operation within five years after the passage of this act all rights herein granted shall cease and determine. Approved March 3, 1875. II...AN ACT granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way through the public lands of the United States is hereby granted to any railroad company duly organized under the laws of any State or Territory, except the District of Columbia, or by the Congress of the United States, which shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of one hundred feet on each side of the central line of said road: also the right to take, from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road, material, earth, stone, and timber necessary for the construction of said railroad; also ground adjacent to such right of way for stationbuildings, depots, and machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and waterstations, not to exceed in amount twenty acres for each station, to the extent of one station for each ten miles of its road. SEC. 2. That any railroad company whose right of way, or whose track or road-bed upon such right of way, passes through any canyon, pass, or defile, shall not prevent any other railroad company from the use and occupancy of the said canyon, pass, or defile, for the purposes of its road, in common with the road first located, or the crossing of other railroads at grade. And the location of such right of way through any canyon, pass, or defile shall not cause the disuse of any wagon or other public highway now located therein, nor prevent the location through the same of any such wagon road or highway where such road or highway may be necessary for the public accommodation; and where any change in the location of such wagon road is necessary to permit the passage of such railroad through any canyon, pass, or defile, said railroad company shall, before entering upon the ground occupied by such wagon road, cause the same to be reconstructed at its own expense in the most favorable location, and in as perfect a manner as the original road: Provided, That such expenses shall be equitably divided between any number of railroad companies occupying and using the same canyon, pass, or defile. SEC. 3. That the legislature of the proper Territory may provide for the manner in which private lands and possessory claims on the public |