Chapter 265.
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CHAP. 265.— AN ACT to declare a forfeiture of lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and for other purposes.February 28, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Forfeiture of lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company under act. That all lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company under the act of Congress entitled “An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company and to aid 338 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
SESS. II. CH. 265,314. 1885. in the construction of its road, and for other purposes,” approved March 1871, vol. 16, ch. 122, p. 573.third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, be, and they are hereby, declared forfeited, and the whole of said lands restored to the public domain and made subject to disposal under the general laws of the United States, as though said *Proviso*.grant had never been made: *Provided*, That the price of the lands so forfeited and restored shall be the same as heretofore fixed for the even sections within said grant Sec. 2.
That the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,1875, vol. 18, ch. 196, p. 519, repealed. entitled “An act for the relief of settlers within railroad limits,” is hereby repealed. Approved, February 28, 1885.