Chapter CXCVIII. making an additional Grant of Lands to the State of Kansas to aid in the Construction of Railroad and Telegraph Lines
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Chap. CXCVIII.— An Act making an additional Grant of Lands to the State of Kansas to aid in the Construction of Railroad and Telegraph Lines.July 1, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatLands granted to Kansas for railroads and telegraphs.Grant subject to conditions.1863, ch. 98.Vol. xii. p. 772. there be, and hereby is, granted to the State of Kansas, to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Emporia, via Council Grove, to a point near Fort Riley, on the branch Union Pacific Railroad, in said state, every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers for ten sections in width on each side of said road: *Provided,* That this grant shall be subject to all the provisions, restrictions, limitations, and conditions, in regard to selection and location of lands and otherwise, of an act of congress approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled “An340THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 198, 199. 1864. act forRailroad to be a public highway. a grant of lands to the State of Kansas, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of certain railroads and telegraphs in said state”: *Provided,* That said railroad shall be a public highway and shall transport troops and munitions of war of the United States free df charge. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatRoute of a certain railroad and telegraph changed. the branch railroad and telegraph from “Lawrence, by the valley of the Wakarusa River, to a point on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa *Fee* railroad, where said road intersects the Neosho River,” to aid in the construction of which a grant of lands was made by the said act of third of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be so changed as to run from Lawrence to Emporia, and have and receive the grant of lands made by said act:Proviso. *Provided,* That the line of railroad and telegraph from Leavenworth, by way of Lawrence and the Ohio City crossing of the Osage River, to the southern line of the state in the direction of Galveston Bay, shall run via Baldwin city.
Approved, July 1, 1864.