Congressional Serial Set Volume 1408 (Paperback)

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. 1870 Excerpt: ...(State) land office; and if they fail to comply with the provisions of this section tiny shall forfeit all rishts to said reservation. Upon acceptance of this amendment the said company stipulates that after the completion of twenty-five miles ol their road, if the legislature so order, they will proceed immediately, with adequate force, to the sectiouizitig of the remaining lands in the reservation, or surrendor the same to the State on the demand of the governor, and failure on the part of said company to proceed after reasonable notice: And provided. All rights to acquire donations of laud from the State, granted to said company..shall cease at the expiration of fifteen years: And provided further. That the reservation granted said company by the acts of which this is amendatory shall not control or affect the survey of auy actual settler within said reservation who was settled upon the same, bad made improvements thereon, had bis laud surveyed and field-notes recorded, prior to the tweutieth day of June, 1857, unless such settler shall fail, within twelve months from the passage of this net, to perfect his title to tlie amount of such surrey, or relocate the same with a genuine land certificate or scrip purchase from the State: And prutuled fvrthtr. That said company shall have the whole ot said reservation sectionized and returned, as specified, within ten years, and on failure skull forft it. all prospective rights to the. reservation. We notice in a letter of J. C. Fremont, president of the company, addressed to the chairman of the Committee on the Pacific Eailroad, copy of an affidavit of J. M. Daniel, chief engineer of this company, in which he states that "said company commenced the actual construction of their road prior to the tirst day of ...