Chapter II. *granting to the Utah Central Railroad Company a Right of Way through the public Lands for the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph*
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CHAP. II.— An Act *granting to the Utah Central Railroad Company a Right of Way through the public Lands for the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph*. Dec. 15, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Right of way through public lands granted to Utah Central Railroad Company for railroad and telegraph, That the right of way through the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to the Utah Central Railroad Company, a corporation created under the laws of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Utah, its successors and assigns, for the construction of a railroad and telegraph from a point at or near Ogden City, in the Territory of Utah, to Salt Lake City, in said Territory; and the right, power, and authority is [are] hereby given to said corporation to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road material ofmaterials for construction;extent of grant. earth, stone, timber, and so forth, for the construction thereof.
Said way is granted to said railroad to the extent of two hundred feet in width on396FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 2, 3. 1870. each side of said railroad where it may pass through the public domain, including all necessary ground for station-buildings, work-shops, depots, machine-shops, switches, side-tracks, turn-tables, and water-stations : *Provided*, Company to file map of location with Secretary of the Interior within three months.Rates for transportation.That within three months from the passage of this act the said Utah Central Railroad Company shall file with the Secretary of the Interior a map to be approved by him, exhibiting the line of the railroad of said company, as the same has been located and constructed: *Provided further*, That said company shall not charge the government higher rates than they do individuals for like transportation and telegraphic service.
And it shall be the duty of the Utah Central Railroad Company Running connections with certain other roads.to permit any other railroad, which has been or shall be authorized to be built by the United States, or by the legislature of the Territory of Utah, to form running connections with its road on fair and equitable terms. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the United States make Express conditions of making and accepting grant.the grants herein, and that the said Utah Central Railroad Company accepts the same, upon the express condition that the said company shall not exercise the power given by section ten of chapter sixteen of the laws of the Territory of Utah, approved February nineteenth, eighteen Congress may enforce conditions.hundred and sixty-nine; and upon the further express condition that if the said company make any breach of the conditions hereof, then in such case, at any time hereafter, the United States, by its Congress, may do any and all acts and things which may be needful and necessary for the enforcement of such conditions.
Sec. 3. Railroad to be a post route and military road.*And be it further enacted*, That said Utah Central Railroad shall be a post route and a military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and all other government service, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose, restricting the charges for such government transportation. Sec. 4. Acceptance of grant by the railroad to be in writing and in three months.*And be it further enacted*, That the acceptance of the terms, conditions, and impositions of this act, by the said Utah Central Railroad Company, shall be signified in writing under the corporate seal of said company, duly executed pursuant to the direction of its board of directors first had and obtained, which acceptance shall be made within three months after the passage of this act, and shall be served on the President of the United States; and if such acceptance and service shall not be so made, this grant shall be void.
Sec. 5. Act may be altered, &c.*And be it further enacted*, That Congress may at any time, having due regard for the rights of said Utah Central Railroad Company, add to, alter, amend, or repeal this act. Approved, December 15, 1870.