Chapter XCVI. granting the Right of Way through the public Lands for the Construction of a Railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon
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CHAP. XCVI.— An Act granting the Right of Way through the public Lands for the Construction of a Railroad from Great Salt Lake to Portland, Oregon.April 12, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That[Supplementary act. 1873, ch. 292. p. 612.]Right of way granted to the Portland, Dalles, and Salt Lake Railroad Co. for railroad and telegraph, with land for depots, &c. for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Portland, in the State of Oregon, by the way of Dalles city, to some suitable point on the Union Pacifie or Central Pacific railroad in the vicinity of Salt Lake, not further east than Green river, with a branch from a suitable point west of the Blue mountains to a suitable point in Walla-Walla valley, there are hereby granted to the Portland, Dalles, and Salt Lake Railroad Company, organized under articles of incorporation filed in the office of the secretary of state of Oregon on the twenty-fifth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and to their successors and assigns, a strip of land one hundred feet wide on each side of the centre line of said road, and the necessary lands for depots, stations, sidetracks, and other needful uses in operating said road and telegraph, not exceeding forty acres at any one place:Locations for depots, &c., not to exceed, &c. *Provided,* That the locations for depots, stations, and sidetracks shall not exceed for the whole line of said road more than one location of forty acres for every ten miles of the same, and when made upon surveyed lands shall conform to the government surveys thereof.
Sec. 2. ThatPlat of located section, &c., to be filed within, &c. said company shall, within six months after the location 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 the 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 pass shall be sold, located, or disposed of by the United States, subject to such right of way so located as aforesaid:Road when to be located, and completed. *Provided,* That the line of said road shall be located within three years after the passage of this act: *And provided further,* That said road shall be completed within ten years thereafter.
Approved, April 12, 1872.