Chapter CCCLXIV. to authorize the Building of the New Mexico and Gulf Railway, and for other Purposes
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CHAP. CCCLXIV.— An Act to authorize the Building of the New Mexico and Gulf Railway, and for other Purposes.June 8, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the New Mexico andRight of way, &c., through public lands granted to the New Mexico and Gulf Railway Co. Gulf Railway Company have, and there is hereby granted to them, their successors and assigns, a strip of land one hundred feet wide on each side of the centre line of a railway route extending from the north-western boundary of New Mexico, as near as practicable to the junction of the San Juan with the Rio Mancos, through Santa Fé county, and down the Pecos river valley to the passage of said Pecos river into the State of Texas, at or near the thirty-second parallel, upon a route to be surveyed and designated by a competent engineer, as a right of way, together with344 the necessary lands for depots, stations, side-tracks, and other needful uses in operating said road and a telegraph line, not exceeding twenty acres atLimit to grant. any one place: *Provided,* That the location for depots, stations and side-tracks shall not exceed for the whole line of said road more than one location of twenty acres for every ten miles of the same, and when made upon surveyed lands shall conform to government surveys.
Sec. 2. That said company shall, within six months after the locationPlat of any section to be located within, &c., with register, &c. of any section of twenty miles or more of their said road, if the same be upon surveyed land, and if upon unsurveyed land, then within six months after the survey thereof by the United States, file a plat of such located section, together with proof thereof, with a register of the land-office for the district wherein said located section may be situated, and upon approval thereof the same shall be noted upon the township plats in said office, and thereafter all lands over which the said line of road shall passLands afterwards to be sold subject to such right of way.Line, when to be located, and road completed.Right of way through other lands than those of the United States. shall be sold, located, or disposed of by the United States, subject to such right of way so located as aforesaid: *Provided,* That the line of said road shall be located within one year after the passage of this act: *And provided further,* That said road shall be completed within ten years thereafter: *And provided also,* That when the route of said road shall pass through lands other than those of the United States, or when it may be necessary for said railroad company to take any lands other than those of the United States for any of the purposes herein mentioned, necessary to said right of way, such right of way through or title to such lands shall be secured in accordance with the laws of the State or territory in which they may be situated: *Provided also,* That the rights herein granted shallOther roads through defiles, &c. not preclude the construction of other roads through any canon, defile, or pass on said route.
Sec. 3. That nothing herein shall be construed as affirming or denyingPower of territory to incorporate, &c. the power of a territory to incorporate a railroad company. Sec. 4. That Congress reserves to itself the right to alter, amend, orAct may be altered, &c. repeal this act, whenever in its judgment the interest of the people shall require it. Approved, June 8, 1872.