Chapter CL. *granting Lands to the State of Oregon to aid in the Construction of a military Wagon Road from the navigable Waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg in said State*
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CHAP. CL.— An Act *granting Lands to the State of Oregon to aid in the Construction of a military Wagon Road from the navigable Waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg in said State*. March 3, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Land grant to Oregon for military wagon road from Coos Bay to Roseburg. That there be, and hereby is, granted to the State of Oregon, to aid in the construction of a military wagon road from the navigable waters of Coos bay to Roseburg, alternate sections of public lands, designated by odd numbers, to the extent Lands granted, how to be applied and disposed of.of three sections in width on each side of said road: *Provided*, That the lands hereby granted shall be exclusively applied to the construction of said road and to no other purpose, and shall be disposed of only as the Conditions of grant.work progresses: *Provided further*, That the grant of lands hereby made shall be upon the condition that the lands shall be sold to any one person only in quantities not greater than one quarter section, and for a price not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre: *And provided further*, Lands heretofore reserved not included in this grant, except right of way.That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States, or otherwise appropriated by act of Congress or other competent authority, be, and the same are hereby, reserved from the operation of this act, except so far as it may be necessary to locate the route of said road through the same, in which case the right of way to the width of one hundred feet is Mineral lands, &c. not embraced.granted: *And provided further*, That the grant hereby made shall not embrace any mineral lands of the United States, or any lands to which homestead or pre-emption rights have attached.
Sec. 2. Lands granted not to be disposed of for other purposes.*And be it further enacted*, That the lands hereby granted to said State shall be disposed of by the legislature thereof for the purpose aforesaid, and for no other; and the said road shall be and remain a341FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess III. Ch. 150, 151. 1869. public highway for the use of the government of the United States, freeRoad to be a public highway and free from tolls to the United States. from tolls or other charges upon the transportation of any property, troops, or mails of the United States.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That said road shall be constructedConstruction of road. with such width, graduation, and bridge as to permit of its regular use as a wagon road, and in such other special manner as the State of Oregon may prescribe. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the State of Oregon is authorizedOregon may use in the construction of the road an additional amount of public lands not, &c. to locate and use in the construction of said road an additional amount of public lands, not previously reserved to the United States nor otherwise disposed of, and not exceeding six miles in distance from it, equal to the amount reserved from the operation of this act in the first section of the same, to be selected in alternate odd sections, as provided in section first of this act.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted*, That lands hereby granted to saidLands granted, how only to be disposed of. State shall be disposed of only in the following manner, that is to say, when the governor of said State shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior that ten continuous miles of said road are completed, then a quantity of the land hereby granted, not to exceed thirty sections, may be sold, and so on from time to time, until said road shall be completed; and if said road is not completed within five years no further sales shallRoad to be completed within five years; if not, then, &c.Whole grant not to exceed, &c. be made, and the lands remaining unsold shall revert to the United States: *Provided, however*, That the entire amount of public land granted by this act shall not exceed three sections per mile for each mile actually constructed.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted*, That the United States surveyor-generalLands granted to be surveyed at earliest practicable period after, &c. for the district of Oregon shall cause said lands, so granted, to be surveyed at the earliest practicable period after said State shall have enacted the necessary legislation to carry this act into effect. Approved, March 3, 1869.