Chapter 131. to repeal section one of the act entitled “An act making a grant of lands in alternate sections to aid in the construction and extension of the Iron Mountain Railroad, from Pilot Knob, in the State of Missouri, to Helena, in Arkansas,” approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for ot
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CHAP. 131.— An Act to repeal section one of the act entitled “An act making a grant of lands in alternate sections to aid in the construction and extension of the Iron Mountain Railroad, from Pilot Knob, in the State of Missouri, to Helena, in Arkansas,” approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for other purposes.June 28, 1884. Repeal of section one of act granting lands to aid in construction of Iron Mountain Railroad. Whereas by the first section of an act of Congress approved July the 14 Stat., 81.
Preamble.fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty six, there was granted to the State of Missouri, for the purpose of aiding in the construction and extension of the Iron Mountain Railroad, from its terminus at Pilot Knob to a point on the southern boundary-line of the State, every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers, for ten sections iu width on each side of said road; and Whereas said Iron Mountain Railroad Company, or its successor, did not comply with the terms of said act either in time or by the construction of its line in accordance with the location of its line as shown on its • maps filed in the Department of the Interior or otherwise, and never became entitled to or received any of said lands:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section one of the act of Congress entitled “An act making a grant of lands in alternate sections to aid in the construction and extension of the Iron Mountain Railroad, from Pilot Knob, in the State of Missouri, to Helena, in Arkansas”, approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be, and hereby is repealed ; and upon the acceptance by the said Iron Mountain Railroad Company, its successors or assigns, in writing, under corporate seal, within six months from the passage of this act, of the terms of this act, and upon the production to the Secretary of the Interior by said company. its successors or assigns, of satisfactory proof that said lauds have not been sold or encumbered by said company, the said Iron Mountain Railroad Company, its successors or assigns, shall be forever released from any and all obligations imposedRelease of company; conditions. by said act of July’ fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and all of the lands granted by said section one be and they are hereby restored to theLands restored to the public domain ; *proviso.* public domain for disposition under the public-land laws of the United States: *Provided, *That all preemption and homestead entries heretofore allowed upon any of said lauds, not in excess of the legal quantity, be, and they are hereby, confirmed : *And provided further,* That all persons residing on any of said lands at the date of the passage of this act shall have a prior right to acquire the same, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, 62 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
SESS. I. CHS. 131,132,134. 1884. by the usual methods and under the usual restrictions : *Provided,* That there shall be excluded from the operation of the release of the obligations as a laud grant road herein provided, that part of the railroad between Poplar Blulf, Missouri and the Arkansas State line. Approved, June 28, 1884.