Chapter LV. to establish certain Post Roads
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Chap. LV.— An Act to establish certain Post Roads.Feb. 24, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following be establishedPost roads established in as post roads:— CALIFORNIA.California. From Colusa to Bear Valley. From Folsom to Lincoln. From Trinity Centre, via Summerville, Ceeilville, and Centreville, to the Forks of Salmon River, in Klamath county. MISSOURI.Missouri. From Warrenton to Troy.
From Warrenton to Pinkney. From St. Charles to Elsah, in Jersey county, Illinois, via Portage de Sioux. From Wellsburg, by Chain of Rocks, Bailey’s, Chantilly, and Snow Hill, to New Hope, in Lincoln county. From Mount Vernon to Carthage, via Bowei’s Mills. ILLINOIS.Illinois. From Peru Station to Blue Grass. INDIANA.Indiana. From Knox to Hamlet. From Bristol, Indiana, via Osborn’s Corners, to Brownsville, Michigan. From Wilmot, via Indian Village, Cromwell, to Ligonier. From Brookville to Sumanville.
IOWA.Iowa. From Des Moines, via Adelphia, Vandalia, Bennington, and Red Rock to Knoxville. From Sioux City to the Yancton Agency, Fort Randal, Fort Pierre, Fort Berthol, Fort Union, mouth of Milk River, Fort Benton, Sun River Farms, Deer Lodge, to Bitter Root Valley. From Masonville to Marion. 663 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 55. 1863. KENTUCKY.Kentucky. From Vanceburg, via Kinny Mills and the mouth of Laurel, to Olive Hill. NEBRASKA.Nebraska. From Omaha City, via De Witt, to West Point.
From Omaha City, via Hazleton, to Forest City. From Fremont, via Jalapa, to West Point. From Columbus, via Monroe, to Genoa. From Columbus to Camden. From Nebraska Centre, via Elm Creek, Buffalo Creek, mouth of North Fork of Platte River, and Lodge Pole Creek, to Boulder City, Colorado Territory. From Fort Laramie, via Deer Creek, Platte Bridge, Green River, and Fort Bridger, to Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. From Cottonwood Springs, via Republican Fork, to Fort Riley, Kansas.
From Plattsmouth, via Plattsford and Forks of Salt Creek, to Camden. From Brownsville, via St. Frederick, Tecumseh, Vesta, and Austin, to Camden. UTAH.Utah. From Beaver, via Greenville and Fort Adams, to Minersville. From Payson to Goshen. NEW YORK.New York. From Boonville, via East Road, to Port Leyden, and thence, via River Road, to Lyons Falls. From Pittsfield, Pennsylvania, via Freehold and Lottsville, to Broken Straw. OHIO.Ohio. From New England to Amesville. From Braceville to Farmington.
From Greenville, via Clapboard Town, Dill’s Station, Beansville, Nevada, Brock, to North Star, in Darke county. PENNSYLVANIA.Pennsylvania. From Mapleton, the present terminus of route number twenty-five hundred and eighty-three, to Newtown. From Pittsburg to West Middleton. From Germantown to Silver Rock. From New Germantown to Concord. From Quakertown, via Richlandtown, Pleasant Valley, Springtown, and Durham, to Rieglesville. From Pike, via Wyulusing, to Dushore. From Pleasantville, via Tionesta, to Clarion.
From New Germantown, in Perry county, to Concord, in Franklin county. From Milton, Northumberland county, to Lewistonville, in the county of Montour. From West Nanticoke, via Harvey’s Creek, to Silver Rock. From Stroudsburg, in Monroe county, via Snydersville, Kellersville, and Fennersville, to Brodheadsville. From Kelly’s Station, on the Alleghany Valley Railroad, to Cochran’s Mills, in Armstrong county. From Reading, via Adams’, Brownsville, and Klop’s Store, to Womelsdorf. 664 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 55, 56. 1863. From New Germantown, Perry county, to Concord, in the county of Franklin. WISCONSIN.Wisconsin. From Wausau to Jenny. From Waupacca, via Amherst, to Plover. WEST VIRGINIA.West Virginia. From Kingwood, via Albright, to Portland. COLORADO.Colorado. From Denver to Bear Cañon, on the headwaters of West Plumb Creek. From Golden City to Ralston Creek. DAKOTA.Dakota. From Mankato, Minnesota, via Madalia, Ashipman, Randolph Lake, Stevens Lake, north and south bends of the Des Moines River, Lake Graham, Blue Mound, Sioux Falls, Upper James Crossing, Yankton, Smutty Bear’s Camp, Bon Homme, Wannavi, Tuffsville, (or Neshuda,) Philbrick’s Crossing, (or Choteau,) and Greenwood, to Fort Randall.
From Elkpoint, via Brule Creek and Valley of Big Sioux River, to Sioux Falls City. From Great Salt Lake City, Utah, via Ogden City, Cache Valley, Snake River Ferry, and Bannack City, to Fort Benton. NEVADA.Nevada. From Chico, California, via Susanville, to Humboldt City. WASHINGTON.Washington. From Fort Laramie, Nebraska, to Hell-Gate, Washington. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the true intent and meaningConstruction of act.1861, ch. 73, § 8.*Ante*, p. 205. of the eighth section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,” shall be taken, deemed, and construed to be directory to the Postmaster-General to make the mail service on the route therein mentioned semi-weekly for the period therein provided.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the Overland Mail CompanyOverland mail company may occupy certain lands, &c. now engaged in carrying the United States mail from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Placerville, California, shall have the privilege of occupying the public lands where their stations are fixed at the rate of not more than one for every ten miles of the route on which said company carry the said mail, and shall have preëmption right therein of any land, not mineral, and not disposed of or reserved, or to which a preëmption or homesteadPreëmption rights. claim has not attached when the same shall be brought into market to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres, to be selected contiguous to and to include their improvements; said preëmption right being in lieu of the same heretofore granted by the twelfth section of the act approved third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled “An act making appropriations1857, ch. 96, § 12.Vol. xi. p. 190. for the service of the Post-Office Department during the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
” Approved, February 24, 1863.