Chapter CXL. *to enable the Jackson, Lansing, and Saginaw Railroad Company to change the northern Terminus of its Road from Traverse Pay to the Straits of Mackinaw, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CXL.— An Act *to enable the Jackson, Lansing, and Saginaw Railroad Company to change the northern Terminus of its Road from Traverse Pay to the Straits of Mackinaw, and for other Purposes*. March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Jackson, Lansing,FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 140, 141. 1871.587 and Saginaw Railroad Company, a corporation organized and existingJackson, Lansing, and Saginaw Railroad Company may change its northern terminus, and alter its location. under the laws of the State of Michigan, and to which the said State granted a portion of the land grant made to aid in the construction of a railroad from Amboy, by Hillsdale and Lansing, to some point on or near Traverse bay, by an act entitled “An act making a grant of alternate sections of the public lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State, and for other purposes,” approved June three, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, be, and hereby is, empowered1856, ch. 44.Vol. xi. p. 21. and authorized to change the northern terminus of its railroad from Traverse bay to some point on or near the straits of Mackinaw, in said State of Michigan, and to change the location of the incompleted portion of its railroad, so as to obtain the most direct and suitable practicable route from Saginaw river to the straits of Mackinaw: *Provided*,Proviso.
That such change shall lessen the length of said line by rendering it more direct: *And provided further*, That no change in the location of said line of railroad shall have the effect or be construed to work any change in the land grant made to aid in the construction of said road : *And provided also*, That such new location shall be made within the limits of such land grant until the northern limit of said grant is passed. Sec. 2. That only the lands embraced within the limits of the saidOnly lands within the original location shall pertain to the railroad. grant as the same was originally located under said act of Congress of June three, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, shall pertain to said railroad, or be applicable to aid in the building of the same, whether it be constructed on such new or improved location, or on the said original location.
But all the lands within the limits of said grant now’ remainingSuch lands shall be applied to aid in the construction of the railroad. unsold, and of the character described and embraced in said act of Congress, whether heretofore listed and certified by the commissioner of the land office as inuring under said grant or not, shall belong to and be applicable to aid in the construction of said railroad, whether built on said improved or said original location, and the said company, on completing its said railroad, or any portion thereof, within the time and in the manner required by law, namely, on or before Julie third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, the time limited in the act of Congress of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, on such new or improved line,1866, ch. 158.Vol. xiv. p. 78. shall be entitled to the same amount of said lands for each mile of said railroad so constructed as if the same had been built on the line originally located under said act: *Provided*, That said company shall not beProviso. entitled to any of said lands for that part of its said new or improved line situate to the northward of the limits of its said land grant, and between that point and the straits of Mackinaw ; but the right of way for said railroad over the public lands on its new or improved location is hereby granted.
Approved, March 3, 1871.