lands of the United States may be condemned; and where such provision shall not have been made, such condemnation may be made in accordance with section three of the act entitled "An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. SEC. 4. That any railroad-company desiring to secure the benefits of this act, shall, within twelve months after the location of any section of twenty miles of its road, if the same be upon surveyed lands, and, if upon unsurveyed lands, within twelve months after the survey thereof by the United States, file with the register of the land office for the district where such land is located a profile of its road; and upon approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office; and thereafter all such lands over which such right of way shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such right of way: Provided, That if any section of said road shall not be completed within five years after the location of said section, the rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to any such uncompleted section of said road. SEC. 5. That this act shall not apply to any lands within the limits of any military, park, or Indian reservation, or other lands specially reserved from sale, unless such right of way shall be provided for by treaty-stipulation or by act of Congress heretofore passed. SEC. 6. That Congress hereby reserves the right at any time to alter, amend, or repeal this act, or any part thereof. Approved March 3, 1875. III...AN ACT amendatory of the act approved March 3, 1873, entitled "An Act author. izing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Saint Louis, in the State of Missouri. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Saint Clair and Carondelet Bridge Company be, and the same is hereby, authorized and empowered, in constructing the bridge authorized by the act of which this act is amendatory, to erect over the main channel of said river two straight continuous spans of not less than four hundred and fifty feet each in the clear, of the pier, at low-water mark, the said two spans to be placed over the main channel instead of the two spans over the main Provided, That any bridge built under the provisions of this act, or the act of which this act is amendatory, shall not be constructed of arch spans. SEC. 2. That if the said corporation accept the bridge site, numbered "2" on the plan and survey submitted to the Secretary of War, the company shall be required to close Cahokia Bend by a dam or similar work to hold the channel against the western bluffs above the bridge: And provided further, That after the said company shall have accepted the site and definitely planned the bridge with its piers, the plan shall be submitted to the Secretary of War for his approval And in maintaining and operating said bridge it shall be subject to all the conditions and restrictions imposed by the act of which this is amendatory. SEC. 3. That Congress shall at all times have the right to amend or repeal this act. GENERAL ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT, No. 38. ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following Act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned: AN ACT to protect ornamental and other trees on Government reservations and on lands purchased by the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any person or persons shall knowingly and unlawfully cut, or shall knowingly aid, assist, or be employed in unlawfully cutting, or shall wantonly destroy or injure, or procure to be wantonly destroyed or injured, any timber-tree or any shade or ornamental tree, or any other kind of tree, standing, growing, or being upon any lands of the United States, which, in pursuance of law, have been reserved, or which have been purchased by the United States for any public use, every such person or persons so offending, on conviction thereof before any circuit or district court of the United States, shall, for every such offense, pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months. SEC. 2. That if any person or persons shall knowingly and unlawfully break or destroy any fence, wall, hedge, or gate inclosing any lands of the United States, which have, in pursuance of any law, been reserved or purchased by the United States for any public use, every such person so offending, on conviction, shall, for every such offense, pay a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding six months. SEC. 3. That if any person or persons shall knowingly and unlawfully break, open, or destroy any gate, fence, hedge, or wall inclosing any lands of the United States, reserved or purchased as aforesaid, and shall drive any cattle, horses, or hogs upon the lands aforesaid for the purpose of destroying the grass or trees on the said grounds, or where they may destroy the said grass or trees, or if any such person or persons shall knowingly permit his or their cattle, horses, or hogs to enter through where the said cattle, horses, or hogs may or can destroy the grass or trees or other property of the United States on the said land, every such person or persons so offending, on conviction, shall pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding twelve months: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to unsurveyed public lands and to public lands subject to pre-emption and homestead laws, or to public lands subject to an act to promote the development of the mining resources of the United States, approved May tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. No. 39. ADJUTANT, GENERAL'S OFFICE, The following Act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned: AN ACT to establish the boundary-line between the State of Arkansas and the Indian country. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the boundary-line between the State of Arkansas and the Indian country, as originally surveyed and marked, and upon which the lines of the surveys of the public lands in the State of Arkansas were closed, be, and the same is hereby, declared to be the permanent boundary-line between the said State of Arkansas and the Indian country. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior shall, as soon as practicable, cause the boundary-line, as fixed in the foregoing section, to be retraced and marked in a distinct and permanent manner; and if the original line, when retraced, shall be found to differ in any respect from what the boundary-line would be if run in accordance with the provisions of the treaties establishing the eastern boundary-line of the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations, then the surveyors shall note such variations and compute the area of the land which in that case would be taken from the State of Arkansas or the Indian country, as the case may be; and the Secretary of the Interior shall also cause any monuments set up in any former survey indicating any line at variance with the survey provided for in this act to be obliterated. Approved March 3, 1875. BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: OFFICIAL: E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant General. |