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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 17 STAT. · May 23, 1872 · Chapter CCV

Chapter CCV. *relating to certain Lands in the State of Alabama.*May 23, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all the lauds heretoforeCertain lands confirmed to the State of Alabama for the use of the Selma, &c., R

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CHAP. CCV.— An Act *relating to certain Lands in the State of Alabama.*May 23, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all the lauds heretoforeCertain lands confirmed to the State of Alabama for the use of the Selma, &c., R. R. Co. certified to the State of Alabama by the commissioner of the general land office for the benefit of the railroad from Selma to Gadsden, then known as the Alabama and Tennessee River railroad, under act of Congress, entitled “An act granting public lands in alternate sections to the 1858, ch. 41.
Vol. xi. p. 17.State of Alabama to aid in the construction of certain railroads,” approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the said State of Alabama for the sole use and benefit of the Selma, Rome, and Dalton Railroad Company, the successors of the said Alabama and Tennessee Railroad Company. Sec. 2. That the right of way and use of a strip of land one hundredRight of way to said road over any public lands in Alabama. feet in width from the centre and on each side of the said railroad, as the same is now located and constructed, upon and over any lands of the United States in the State of Alabama, be, and the same is hereby, granted to the said Selma, Rome, and Dalton Railroad Company.
Approved, May 23, 1872.
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