Chapter XXVI. *to extend the Time for the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Company to complete the first Section of twenty Miles of said Road*
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CHAP. XXVI.— An Act *to extend the Time for the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Company to complete the first Section of twenty Miles of said Road*. April 10, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Time for Little Rock and Fort Smith R. R. Co. building first section of road extended.1853, ch. 69.Vol. x. p. 155.1866, ch. 300.Vol. xiv. p. 338. That an act approved July twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “An act to revive and extend the provisions of ‘An act granting the right of way and making a grant of land to the States of Arkansas and Missouri, to aid in the construction of a railroad from a point upon the Mississippi river, opposite the mouth of the Ohio river, via Little Rock, to the Texas boundary near Fulton in Arkansas, with branches to Fort Smith and the Mississippi river,’ approved February nine, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes,” be so amended as to extend the time to the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Company, for building the first section of twenty miles provided for in the second section of said act, for Proviso repealed,1870, ch. 25.*Post*, p. 76.the term of three years from the thirteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the time of filing the certificate of organization to said company provided for in the third section of said act: *Provided*, That the land granted by the act hereby revived shall be sold to actual47FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 26, 27, 28, 29. 1869. settlers only, in quantities not greater than one quarter of a section toLand to whom and how to be sold. one purchaser, and for a price not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per acre. Approved, April 10, 1869.