Chapter 637. to forfeit the lauds granted to the Atlantic and Pacific railroad Company to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific coast, and to restore the same to settlement and for other purposesJuly 6, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate
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CHAP. 637.— An Act to forfeit the lauds granted to the Atlantic and Pacific railroad Company to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific coast, and to restore the same to settlement and for other purposesJuly 6, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company. That all the lands, excepting the right of way and the right, power, and authority given to said corporation to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road ma- 124 FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 637, 744. 1886.Furfeiture of grant of lands adjacent to uncompleted portion of road, except right of way, etc.Vol. 14, p. 292.terial of earth, stone, timber, and so forth, for the construction thereof, including all necessary grounds for station buildings, workshops, depots, machine-shops, switches, sidetracks, turntables, and water-stations, here to for granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company by an act entitled “An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific coast,” approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and subsequent acts and joint resolutions of Congress, which are adjacent to and coterminous with the uncompleted portions of the main line of said road, embraced within both the granted and indemnity limits, as contemplated to be constructed under and by the provisions of the said act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and acts and joint resolutions subsequent thereto and relating to the construction of said road and telegraph, be and the same are hereby, declared forfeited and restored to the public domain.
Approved, July 6, 1886.