Chapter XX. *restoring Lands to Market along the Line of the Pacific Railroads and Branches.*March 6, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That nothing in the act approved Lands on line of Pacific railroads and branches restored
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CHAP. XX.— An Act *restoring Lands to Market along the Line of the Pacific Railroads and Branches.*March 6, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That nothing in the act approved Lands on line of Pacific railroads and branches restored to market 1862, ch. 120.July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 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,” and the acts amendatory thereof, Vol. xii. p. 489. 1864, ch. 216.
Vol. xiii. p. 356. 1866, ch. 156.shall be held to authorize the withdrawal or exclusion from settlement and entry, under the provisions of the pre-emption or homestead laws, the even-numbered sections along the routes of the several Vol. xiv. p. 79. Vol. xiv. pp.355, 867.roads therein mentioned which have been or may be hereafter located: *Provided,* That such sections shall be rated at two dollars and fifty cents Price of lands.per acre, and subject only to entry under those laws; and the SecretaryHomestead and pre-emption rights. of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to restore to homestead settlement, pre-emption, or entry, according to existing laws, all the even-numbered sections of land belonging to the government, and now withdrawn from market, on both sides of the Pacific railroad and branches, wherever said road and branches have been definitely located.
Approved, March 6, 1868.