Chapter XVI. *extending the Time for the Completion of the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad.*March 2, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Time for completing the Dubuque & Sioux City railroad extended
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CHAP. XVI.— An Act *extending the Time for the Completion of the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad.*March 2, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Time for completing the Dubuque & Sioux City railroad extended. That the time for completing a line of railroad from Dubuque to Sioux City, in the State of Iowa, for the construction of which lands were granted in alternate sections to said State by act entitled “An act making a grant of lands to the State of 1856, ch. 28.
Vol. xi. p. 9.Iowa in alternate sections to aid in the construction of railroads in said 1864, ch. 103. Vol. xiii. p. 95.State,” approved May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, be, and the same is, extended until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, subject to the reverter mentioned in said act at the expiration Route of road.of the time herein limited: *Provided,* [That] said road shall be constructed on the most practical route by way of Webster City and Fort Dodge to Sioux City, which route shall be at all points within the limits Rate of completion.of said land grant, and the same shall be completed to Fort Dodge on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and there Road to be one line.after at the rate of not less than forty miles each year; and the said road shall be constructed, operated, and maintained as one continuous and unbroken Limitation to disposal of lands.line of road from Dubuque to Sioux City; and no lands shall be disposed of, or patented, or certified for said purposes more than forty miles in advance of the point to which said road may be constructed from time to time.
Approved, March 2, 1868.