Chapter CCCLIX. granting the Right of Way through the public Lands to the Pensacola and Louisville Railroad Company of Alabama
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CHAP. CCCLIX.— An Act granting the Right of Way through the public Lands to the Pensacola and Louisville Railroad Company of Alabama.June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the right of way throughRight of way through public lands and to take materials, granted to the Pensacola and Louisville R. R. Co. of Alabama.Extent of grant. the public lands be, and the same is hereby, granted to the Pensacola and Louisville Railroad Company of Alabama, for the construction of a railroad.
And the right is hereby granted to said corporation to take, from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road, material for the construction of said road. Said way is granted to said company to the extent of one hundred feet on each side of said road where it may pass through the public lands; also the necessary lands for stations, buildings, depots,341FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 359–361. 1872. workshops, machine-shops, side-tracks, switches, turn-tables, and water-stations, not to exceed forty acres in any place.
The acceptance of theAcceptance of this act to be filed.Road to be completed within, &c., and to be a post road, &c.;may make certain running connections. provisions of this act by the said company, and a map of the location of the road, and the lands to be reserved for buildings and uses of said road, shall be filed with the Secretary of the Interior, within one year from the passage of this act; and the road shall be finished within five years from the passage of this act. Said road shall be a post and military road, and shall have the power of making running connections for the transportation of mails, military and naval supplies, passengers, and freights of all kinds, and the running of freight-cars, without the breaking of bulk, whenever the interests of the public and of commerce between the States will be advanced thereby, with any other road which has heretofore received, or may hereafter receive, aid from the United States for the construction thereof, on fair and equitable terms, and pro rata between the roads, in proportion to the length of the several roads; and in the event of a disagreementRates therefor. between the said road and any other road having so received aid from the United States for the construction thereof, and connecting with the said Pensacola and Louisville railroad, then the Secretary of the Interior shall establish such rates for the transportation of mails, freights, and passengers, and running connections as are herein provided for, and also establish such regulations as may be requisite for the enforcementAct may be altered.Pre-emption, &c., claims not affected. of the provisions of this act.
Congress shall, in its discretion, have the power to alter, amend, or repeal this act. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to invalidate the claim of any actual pre-emption or homestead settlers. Approved, June 8, 1872.