Chapter CLIV. *to amend an 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* 2, 1862
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Chap. CLIV.— An Act *to amend an 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* 2, 1862. July 12, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * First meeting of commissioners on Pacific railroad and telegraph, to be held in Chicago.
That the first meeting of the commissioners named in 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 second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the five commissioners directed by said act to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be held at Bryan Hall, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, on the first Notice.Tuesday of September next, at twelve o’clock, at noon.
A notice of said meeting, to be signed by at least ten of the commissioners named in said act, shall be published at least once a week during the six successive weeks commencing on the twentieth of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two in one daily newspaper in each of the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, and no other notice of said meeting shall be requisite. Approved, July 12, 1862.