Chapter CXXIII. *to renew certain Grants of Land to the State of Alabama*
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CHAP. CXXIII.— An Act *to renew certain Grants of Land to the State of Alabama*. March 3, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Former land grant to Alabama for rail-roads renewed.1856, ch. 41.Vol. xi. p. 17.See *ante*, p. 45. That the grant of lands made to the State of Alabama by the act of Congress approved June three, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled “An act granting public lands, in alternate sections, to the State of Alabama, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State,” to assist in the building of a railroad from the city of Montgomery, Alabama, to some point on the Alabama and Tennessee State line, in the direction of Nashville, is hereby revived and renewed for the use and benefit of the South and North Alabama Railroad Company, subject to all the conditions and restrictions contained in If road is not completed in three years, lands unsold to revert.Proviso.the act referred to, and subject to the further limitation, that if the said railroad is not completed within three years from the passage of this act no further sale shall be made for the benefit of said road, and the lands unsold shall revert to the United States : *Provided*, That the lands granted by the act hereby revived, except mineral lands, shall be sold to actual settlers only, in quantities not greater than one quarter section to any one purchaser, and for a price not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
Sec. 2. Right granted to take materials from adjacent public lands.Right of way, with grounds for stations.That the right, power, and authority is hereby given to the company building the aforesaid railroad to take from the public land, adjacent to the lines of said railroad, earth, stone, and other materials for the construction thereof; and the right of way is hereby granted to the extent of one hundred feet in width on each side of said railroad where it may pass over the public lands, including all necessary grounds for stations and structures connected therewith, not exceeding forty acres at any one station.
Approved, March 3, 1871.