due. Notice when Sixty days' previous notice shall be given of the payments required, payments are and of the time and place of payment, by publishing a notice once a If stockholders Week in one daily newspaper in each of the cities of Boston, New York, neglect to pay, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, Memphis, and Nashville, and in case any stockstock and pre- holder shall neglect or refuse to pay, in pursuance of such notice, the vions payments stock held by such person shall be forfeited absolutely to the use of the forfeited. Redemption. company, and also any payment or payments that shall have been made on account thereof, subject to the condition that the board of directors may allow the redemption on such terms as they may prescribe. Company may SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the said company is authorized accept and hold to accept to its own use any grant, donation, loan, power, franchise, any grant, loan, aid, or assistance which may be granted to or conferred on said comaid, &c. pany by the Congress of the United States, by the legislature of any State, or by any corporation, person, or persons, or by any Indian tribe or nation through whose reservation the road herein provided for may Grant from any pass; and said corporation is authorized to hold and enjoy any such Indian tribe to grant, donation, loan, power, franchise, aid, or assistance, to its own be subject to the approval of the use, for the purpose aforesaid: Provided, That any such grant or donaPresident of the tion, power, aid, or assistance from any Indian tribe or nation shall be United States. subject to the approval of the President of the United States. Southern Paci- SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the Southern Pacific Railroad, fic Railroad Com a company incorporated under the laws of the State of California, is pany may con- hereby authorized to connect with the said Atlantic and Pacific Raillantic and Pacific road, formed under this act, at such point, near the boundary line of the State of California, as they shall deem most suitable for a railPoint of con- road line to San Francisco, and shall have a uniform gauge and rate of freight or fare with said road; and in consideration thereof, to aid in Gauge and rates its construction, shall have similar grants of land, subject to all the conditions and limitations herein provided, and shall be required to May have sim construct its road on the like regulations, as to time and manner, with ilar grants of like the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad herein provided for. nect with the At road. nection. of fare. land terms. on SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That unless the said Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company shall obtain bona-fide subscriptions to the This act to be stock of said company to the amount of one million of dollars, with ten per centum paid, within two years after the passage of and approval of this act, it shall be null and void. void, unless, &c. Act may be altered or repeal. ed. to directors, or SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That the better to accomplish the object of this act, namely, to promote the public interest and welfare by the construction of said railroad and telegraph line, and keeping the same in working order, and to secure to the Government at all times, but particularly in time of war, the use and benefits of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, Congress may, at any time, having due regard for the rights of said Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, add to, alter, amend or repeal this act. When in grants SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That whenever in any grant of land corporations or other subsidies, made or hereafter to be made, to railroads or other the United States corporations, the United States has reserved the right, or shall reserve reserves the it, to appoint directors, engineers, commissioners or other agents to exright to appoint amine said roads, or act in conjunction with other officers of said comagents, &c., all pany or companies, all the costs, charges, and pay of said directors, costs, pay, &c., engineers, commissioners, or agents, shall be paid by the respective comof such persons panies. Said directors, engineers, commissioners, or agents shall be are to be borne by the corpora paid for said services the sum of ten dollars per day, for each and every tions. day actually and necessarily employed, and ten cents per mile for each Rate of pay to and every mile actually and necessarily travelled, in discharging the duties required of them, which per diem and mileage shall be in full compenIf company neglects to make sation for said services. And in case any company shall refuse or negsuch payments, lect to make such payments, no more patents for lands or other subno more patents sidies shall be issued to said company until these requirements are for lands, &c., to complied with. (a) such persons. issue. (a(See Nos. 1083, 1086, 1088, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1120, 1122, 1125, 1131, 1132, 1133, 1134, 1136, 1152. (b) See Nos. 340, 344, 972, 979. (c) See Nos. 729, 981, 983, 997, 1007, 1009, 1010, 1020, 1028, 1083, 1086, 1096, 1110, 1115, 1120, 1135. No. 1122.-AN ACT to revive and extend the provisions of "An act granting the right of way and making a grant of land to the States of Arkansas and Missouri, to aid in the construction of a railroad from a point upon the Mississippi opposite the mouth of the Ohio River, via Little Rock, to the Texas boundary, near Fulton, in Arkansas, with branches to Fort Smith and the Mississippi River," approved February 9, 1853, and for other purposes. July 28, 1866. Vol. 14, p. 338. The act grant kansas and Mis years. for ten reverted, to be re Be it enacted, &c., That the "Act granting the right of way and making a grant of land to the States of Arkansas and Missouri to aid in the ing right of way construction of a railroad from a point upon the Mississippi opposite the and lands to Armouth of the Ohio River, via Little Rock, to the Texas boundary, near souri for railroad Fulton, in Arkansas, with branches to Fort Smith and the Mississippi revived and exRiver," approved February nine, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, with tended all the provisions therein made, be, and the same is hereby, revived and extended for the term of ten years from the passage of this act; and all Lands heretothe lands therein granted, which reverted to the United States under fore granted and the provisions of said act, be, and the same are hereby, restored to the stored to same same custody, control, and condition, and made subject to the uses and custody and contrusts in all respects as they were before and at the time such reversion dition as at time took effect: Provided, That all mineral lands within the limits of this reversion took place. grant and the grant made in section two of this act are hereby reserved Mineral lands to the United States: And provided further, That all property and troops reserved. of the United States shall at all times be transported over said railroad Property and and branches at the cost, charge, and expense of the company or corpo- United States to troops of the ration owning or operating said road and branches respectively, when be transported so required by the Government of the United States. free of cost. trusts. uses and SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there is hereby granted, added Additions to to, and made part of the donation of lands hereby renewed and made, former grant for subject to the same uses and trusts, and under the same custody, con- same trol, and conditions, and to be held and disposed of in the same manner as if included in the original grant, all the alternate sections and parts Lands reserv. of sections, designated by odd numbers, lying along the outer line of ed or to which homestead or lands heretofore granted, and within five miles on each side thereof, expre-emption cepting lands reserved or otherwise appropriated by law, or to which rights have atthe right of pre-emption or homestead settlement has attached: Pro- tached, excepted vided, That the additional quantity of lands hereby granted, when added from grant. to the lands specified in section one hereof, shall not exceed, in the ag not to exceed ten Whole grant gregate quantity of lands by this act granted, sufficient to amount to sections a mile. ten sections for each mile of railroad: And provided further, That the Lands, how lands embraced in this grant and the grant revived by section one of only to b 'spos. this act shall be disposed of only as follows: Whenever proof shall be ed of. furnished, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, that any section Sections of ten of ten consecutive miles of said road and branches is completed in a consecutive good, substantial, and workmanlike manner as a first-class railroad, the miles. said Secretary of the Interior shall issue patents for all the lands granted as aforesaid, not exceeding ten sections per mile situate opposite to and within the limits of twenty miles of the section of said road and branches thus completed, and when like proof shall be furnished that another section of ten miles of said road in said States or on the said branches respectively connecting with the preceding section is completed as aforesaid, the Secretary of the Interior shall issue patents in like manner as as in case of the first-completed sections, and so on from time to time until the whole is completed as herein provided, when the Secretary of the Interior shall issue patents for all the remaining lands herein granted, not exceeding the aggregate amount provided for and located as required by sections one and two of this act: And provided If twenty miles further, That if one section of twenty miles of each of said railroads are not complet and branches shall not be fully constructed and completed as a first- ed in three years, class railroad within three years from the time this act becomes a law, ty miles each and at least one section of twenty miles on each of said roads and year afterwards, branches in each year thereafter, and the whole of said roads and and the whole in branches within ten years from the time this act shall take effect, then ten years, lands then unpatented and in either of said cases all the lands granted or the grant of which to revert to the is revived or extended by this act, and which at the time shall be un- United States. patented to or for the benefit of the road or company making or suffering such failure, shall revert to the United States. and at least twen Lands hereby SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the lands mentioned in this act, and hereby granted, are hereby reserved from entry, pre-emption, granted to be reor appropriation to any other purpose than herein contemplated, for the served from ensaid term of ten years from the passage of this act: Provided, That all try, pre-emption, lands heretofore given to the State of Missouri for the construction of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad, or for the use of said road lying in the &c. Cairo and Fulton Railroad. held and used to Lands given to State of Missouri, and all lands proposed to be granted by this act Missouri for for the use or in aid of the road herein named, and lying in said State of Missouri, shall be granted and patented to the said State whenever the When to be road shall be completed through said State, which lands may be held patented to the by said State and used toward paying the State the amount of bonds State; may be heretofore issued by it to aid said company, and all interest accrued or ward paying cer- to accrue thereon: Provided further, That the provisions of this act, so tain State bonds. far as the same relate to the Memphis and Little Rock and Little Rock When this act and Fort Smith branches of said road, shall not take effect until the takes effect as relates to the Mem. Secretary of the Interior shall make and file a certificate in his office phis and Little and the office of the secretary of state of Arkansas, stating that the Rock and Little companies or corporations claiming the benefit of this act in behalf of Rock and Fort said branches have reorganized their boards of directors in a lawful Smith branches manner, and, after such reorganization, that they have respectively reof road. scinded all acts, resolutions, or other proceedings, transferring the lands rights, or privileges of such corporations or companies to any convention, State, or authority recognizing or acting in concert with, or under the authority of the late so-called confederate States of America. (a) (a) See Nos. 1083, 1086, 1088, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1120, 1121, 1125, 1131, 1132, 1133, 1134, 1136, 1152. July 28, 1866. Patents to issue to Robert Baldwin for lands in Missouri. No. 1123.—AN ACT for the relief of Robert Baldwin. Whereas, on the fifth day of December, eighteen hundred and fortynine, Robert Baldwin located at the land office at Milan, in the State of Missouri, three military bounty-land warrants issued under the act of eighteen hundred and for ty-seven, each for one hundred and sixty acres and numbered seven thou sand eight hundred and forty-seven, twentysix thousand eight hundred and one, and fifty thousand two hundred and sixty-three, upon the following-described public lands, to wit: The west half lot number one northwest quarter-section five: the east half lots number one and two northeast quarter-section six in town fifty-seven range sixteen: the southeast quarter southeast quarter, the west half northeast quarter, the east half northwest quarter, the west half southeast quarter, the northeast quarter southeast quarter, and the northeast quarter southwest quarter of section thirty-one town fiftyeight range sixteen, receiving from the register of said land office at Milan, duplicate certifi cates of location; and whereas the said military bounty-land warrants were lost from the mail in their transmission from said land office to Washington, and have not since been heard from: therefore, Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause patents for said lands to be issued to said Robert Baldwin, upon his surrendering to the Commissioner of the General Land Office the said duplicate certificates of location. March 2, 1867. June 25, 1868. No. 1124.-AN ACT to extend the provisions of an act entitled "An act for the final adjustment of private land claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other purposes." [See LOUISIANA, No. 961.] No. 1125.-AN ACT relative to filing reports of railroad companies. [Reports of certain railroads to be made on or before October 1, in each year, to Secretary of Interior. See NEBRASKA, No. 2107.] July 4, 1868. Title of the certain land in Missouri con No. 1126.-AN ACT for the relief of the owners of the land within the United Be it enacted, &c., That the United States do hereby release, grant, United States to relinquish, convey, and confirm, in fee-simple and in full property, to the legal representatives of Ann O. Camp and Antoine Reilhe all of the veyed to Ann O. right, title, and interest of the United States in and to all of the land Camp and An- within United States survey number three thousand two hundred and seventeen, in townships forty-four and forty-five, north of the base line in ranges six and seven, east of the fifth principal meridian line, in the toine Reilhe. State of Missouri, being the same land that was surveyed by the United States for Madame Camp and Antoine Reilhe's representatives, containing two thousand nine hundred and five arpens and fifty-six perches and forty feet, which is equal to two thousand four hundred and seventy-one acres and seventy-six hundredths of an acre: Provided, however, Adverse rights That nothing in this act shall in any manner abridge, divest, impair, not affected. injure, or prejudice any adverse right, title, or interest of any person or persons in or to any portion or part of the aforesaid land, which is released, granted, relinquished, conveyed, and confirmed by this act. No. 1127.-AN ACT authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri No. 1128.-AN ACT providing for the sale of the arsenal grounds at Saint Louis and Liberty, Missouri, and for other purposes. July 20, 1868. July 25, 1868. Be it enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell, at such time and in such manner as he may deem most ad- Saint Louis and vantageous to the interest of the Government, subject to the provisions Liberty, Mishereinafter contained, the following military reservations and public souri, and other property, namely: The ground now occupied by the Saint Louis arsenal, in the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, except the westernmost six acres thereof, and that occupied by the United States arsenal situated at Liberty, Missouri, together with such buildings, machinery, and other property appertaining thereto as cannot be advantageously employed in the construction or improvement of other arsenals or military posts. property, may be sold. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the ground occupied by the Saint Ground occuLouis arsenal, except the westernmost six acres thereof, shall be divided pied by Saint into lots and blocks of convenient size for building purposes, with public except, &c., to Louis arsenal, streets, conforming, as near as may be without detriment to the interest be divided into of the Government in the sale, to the public streets of the city of Saint lots, and sold at Louis adjoining said grounds; a plat of this division, made in accord- auction. ance with the laws of the State of Missouri, shall be filed with the proper officer in the city of Saint Louis; and the said lots shall be sold separately, at public auction, to the highest bidder, after thirty days' notice by advertisement in at least three daily papers in the city of of Saint Louis; payment to be made one-third in cash, the remainder in one and two years, with six per cent. interest per annum, secured ment. by deed of trust on the lots sold. The stone wall surrounding said Stone wall, arsenal shall be sold in sections not exceeding one hundred feet in how to be sold. length. (a) to Mode of pay Proviso. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the westernmost six acres of Westernmost the tract of ground occupied by the said Saint Louis arsenal is hereby six acres granted granted to the city of Saint Louis, to be by it held as a public ground Saint Louis as a the city of forever, open to the use of the public as a place of public resort, and for public ground. no other use whatever, and without any power in said city to make any disposition of the same, or any part thereof, for any private use whatever: Provided, however, That this grant is upon the express condition that the said city or the association formed and now existing in the State of Missouri, for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of the late Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon, shall, within General Lyon to three years after the passage of this act, complete the erection upon be erected therethe said six acres of such a monument, upon a plan and of a charac- on in three years. ter to be approved by the President of the United States; in default whereof this grant shall be null and void. Monument to to be sold at auc SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the grounds occupied by the Grounds of Liberty arsenal shall be sold at public auction, after due notice by Liberty arsenal public advertisement of the time and place of said sale, in such parcels, tion. blocks and lots as may be deemed most advantageous to the interest of the Government, by the Secretary of War, upon the terms and conditions as to payment specified in the previous section. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all proceeds of the sale of all Proceeds of property provided for in this act shall be paid into the Treasury of the sales. United States: Provided, That the machinery, ordnance stores, and arms that the Government desires to reserve from sale, shall be stored at any be stored. arsenal now established or to be established by law. (a) See Nos. 1109, 1129. Machinery, &c., removed, to March 3, 1869. grants. No. 1129.-AN ACT amendatory of the act providing for the sale of the arsenal grounds at St. Louis and Liberty, Missouri, and for other purposes, approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. Six acres of the Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the third section of the act providarsenal grounds at St. Louis, to be ing for the sale of the arsenal grounds at Saint Louis and Liberty, Misdesignated by souri, and for other purposes, approved July twenty-five, eighteen hunthe Secretary of dred and sixty-eight, as grants to the city of Saint Louis, the westernWar, to be grant- most six acres of the tract of ground occupied by the Saint Louis arseed to the city of Saint Louis, in nal, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as it designates the part lieu of former of said tract so granted; and in lieu of said westernmost six acres there shall be granted to said city, for the purposes and upon the conditions expressed in said act, other six acres of said tract, to be designated by the Secretary of War; and that the period limited in said act for the for erection of erection of the monument therein contemplated to be erected shall be monument, when considered as commencing at the time when the Secretary of War shall to commence to have designated the six acres of said tract to be granted to said city: Provided, however, That no part of the said six acres, shall be selected to be made east east of the western line of the ground occupied by the Saint Louis and of, &c. Iron Mountain Railroad. (a) Time limited run. Selection not (a) See Nos. 1109, 1128. March 3, 1869. fected. con No. 1130.-AN ACT to confirm certain private land claims in the State of Mis souri. Private land Be it enacted, &c. That the claims of the legal representatives of Gaclaims of reprebriel Cerre and Sophia Bolaye, falling within the exterior boundaries sentatives of Ga of the commons of Carondelet, the former entered as number sixty, for briel Cerre and four hundred arpens, and the latter as number two hundred and sevSophia Bolaye in Missouri, enty-nine, for one hundred and fifty arpens, in the first class of decisfirmed. Adverse ions of the board of land commissioners under the acts of Congress aprights not af proved ninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, for the adjustment of private land claims in Missouri, as recommended by said board (H. Ex. Doc. 59, 1st session 24th Congress, p. 187, and S. Doc. 16, same session, page 40,) which claims were confirmed by the act of Congress approved fourth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, subject to location elsewhere than in place in case of conflict, (Stat. L., vol. 5, page 126,) be, and the same are hereby, confirmed in place, subject to any valid adverse rights, if such exist, and patents for said claims shall be issued accordingly. March 3, 1869. No. 1131.-A RESOLUTION extending the time for the completion of the first Vol. 15, p. 349. twenty miles of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. Time for com tion of the Cairo road extended. Resolved, &c., That in case the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company pleting first sec- shall complete the first section of twenty miles of said road by the and Fulton Rail- twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the Secretary of the Interior shall be satisfied of such completion, then the said company shall be entitled to its lands in all respects and to the same extent as it would have been had said twenty miles been completed by the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, as provided by law relating to said railroad company approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. (a) (a) See Nos. 1083, 1086, 1088, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1120, 1121, 1122, 1125, 1132, 1133, 1134, 1136, 1152. April 10,1869. Time for Little tended. No. 1132.-AN ACT to extend the time for the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Be it enacted, &c., That an act approved July twenty-eight, eighteen Rock and Fort hundred and sixty-six, entitled, "An act to revive and extend the proSmith R. R. Co. visions of 'An act granting the right of way and making a grant of land building first section of road ex. to the States of Arkansas and Missouri, to aid in the construction of a railroad from a point upon the Mississippi River, opposite the mouth of the Ohio River, via Little Rock, to the Texas boundary near Falton in Arkansas, with branches to Fort Smith and the Mississippi River,' approved February nine, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes," be so amended as to extend the time to the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Company, for building the first section |