This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...along the lines of said roads. The right is hereby further given and granted to said companies, to take from any of the lands belonging to this State all such materials of earth, wood, stone, or other materials whatever, as may be necessary or convenient, from time to time, for the first construction or equipment of said road or roads, or any part thereof; provided, that the grants herein made, as well of the use of the land of this State as for the materials for the con Provisos, struction and equipment of said road or roads, shall ceaso and determine as respects such particular road, which shall not have been begun and completed within the times limited in section thirty-nine of this Act; and, provided further, that if any road, at any time after its location, shall be discontinued or abandoned by said company or companies, or the location of any part thereof be so changed as not to cover the lands of the State thus previously occupied, then the lands so abandoned or left shall revert to this State; and, provided further, that when the location of the route of either of said railroads, or sites or places for depots, watering places, machine or workshops, or other buildings for the convenient use of the same, shall be selected, the Seeretary of the said company shall transmit to the Surveyor General, and to the Controller of the State, and to the Recorder of the county in which the lands so selected are situated, to each of said officers, a correct plot of the location of said railroad, or sites or places, before such selection shall become operative. And when any such company shall, for its Convey-purposes aforesaid, require any of the land belonging to any of fands0eto t"le counties, cities, or towns in this State, the county, city, and by cities.&q...