Chapter CLIX. *to amend an Act entitled “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* 1, 1862,” *approv
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CHAP. CLIX.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “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* 1, 1862,” *approved July* 2, 1864.July 3, 1866.1862, ch. 120.Vol. xii. p. 489.1864, ch. 216.Vol. xiii. p. 356. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Union Pacific RailwayUnion Pacific Railway Company to designate general route of road, &c., before Dec. 1, 1866.Lands on line of road to be then reserved from sale.Amount of bonds to be the same as if, &c.
Company, eastern division, is hereby authorized to designate the general route of their said road and to file a map thereof, as now required by law, at any time before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and upon the filing of the said map, showing the general route of said road, the lands along the entire line thereof, so far as the same may be designated, shall be reserved from sale by order of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided,* That said company shall be entitled to only the same amount of the bonds of the United States to aid in the construction of their line of railroad and telegraph as they would have80THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 159, 160. 1866. been entitled to if they had connected their said line with the Union Pacific railroad on the one hundredth degree of longitude as now required by law: *And provided further,* That said company shall connect theirPoint of connection with Union Pacific Railroad. line of railroad and telegraph with the Union Pacific railroad, but not at a point more than fifty miles westwardly from the meridian of Denver in Colorado. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Union Pacific Railroad Company, with the consent and approval of the Secretary of the Interior, are hereby authorized to locate, construct, and continue their road fromLocation of Union Pacific Railroad Company from Omaha westward;
Omaha, in Nebraska Territory, westward, according to the best and most practicable route, and without reference to the initial point on the one hundredth meridian of west longitude, as now provided by law, in a continuous completed line, until they shall meet and connect with the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California; and the Central Pacific Railroadof Central Pacific Railroad Company eastward. Company of California, with the consent and approval of the Secretary of the Interior, are hereby authorized to locate, construct, and continue their road eastward, in a continuous completed line, until they shall meet and connect with the Union Pacific Railroad: *Provided,* That each of the above-named companies shall have the right, when the nature of the work to be done, by reason of deep cuts and tunnels, shall for the expeditiousWork may be done on not over 300 miles in advance of continuous completed lines. construction of the Pacific railroad require it, to work for an extent of not to exceed three hundred miles in advance of their continuous completed lines.
Approved, July 3, 1866.