Chapter 3921. To extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Central Railway, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 3921.— An Act To extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Central Railway, and for other purposes. June 30, 1906. [[S. 5901](/us/bill/59/s/5901).] [[Public, No. 390](/us/pl/59/390).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Alaska Central Railway.Extension of time for completion.Vol. 30, p. 410, amended. That the time for the compliance by the Alaska Central Railway Company with the provisions of sections four and live of chapter two hundred and ninety-five of the laws of the United States, entitled “An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for the right of way for railroads in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by locating and completing its railroad in Alaska, is hereby extended, and the powers of said company are enlarged, as follows:
First. Time of filing map of definite location. Said company shall have three years from the passage of this Act within which to file a map of definite location, until which time all their rights originally secured by the filing of their plats of preliminary location shall continue, and six years from the date of filing of such maps of definite location within which to complete said railroad to the Tanana River. Second. Grant of land for terminal purposes. That there is hereby granted to said company for terminal purposes and for the building of approaches, wharves, docks, warehouses, elevators, and such other structures as may be necessary for the conduct of the business of said railway, on and contiguous to the Tenana River and the Yukon River, and at such points thereon as the company shall select, public land not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres at each of said points and having a frontage on each of the said rivers not to exceed one mile: and a similar grant of land is hereby made to said company for intermediate division terminals at points on the line of its railway to be selected by it as most convenient for said intermediate division terminals and approximately one hundred miles apart. 799 The land hereby granted shall be located and selected by said company Filing plat.and its rights shall attach thereto when it shall have filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior a plat thereof, with a copy thereof in the local land office.
Said company shall have the right to Immediate possession.Title.enter on and possess said lands immediately, but title shall not vest until the railroad of said company shall have been completed to said points respectively. There is further hereby granted to said company Grant of land on Resurrection Bay.for similar purposes, on Resurrection Bay, two parcels of public land, one of an area of one and forty one-hundredths acres and the other of an area of twenty-eight one-hundredths acre, which lie between the line of mean high tide on said bay and the east line of the present right, of way of the Alaska Central Railway and immediately east of the United States survey numbered seven hundred and twenty-six south and United States survey numbered seven hundred and twenty-sixth north, F.
L. Ballaine soldier’s additional homestead location, said two parcels being in addition to the land located by said company for terminal purposes on Resurrection Bay under the provisions of general law. Third. There is hereby granted the said company the right to purchase Purchase of additional land.at one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre the reserve tract between the homestead locations of Scheffler and Ravell on the north shore of Resurrection Bay, said reserve tract having the same depth from the water front as the adjoining homestead locations.
Fourth. Said company shall have the right to locate its right of way Locating right of way.along the navigable waters of Alaska and as near thereto as may be necessary for the safe, economical, and efficient construction and operation of its line of railway, any restriction, condition, reservation, or easement provided in, by, or under any Act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding, and the right of way for its railway is granted to said company on Ressurrection Bay and at such other points as it may be found desirable to establish terminal facilities on, over, along, and across any roadway established along the shores of navigable waters under the Act of Congress of May fourteenth, eighteen hundred Vol. 30, p. 409.and ninety-eight.
Fifth. Said company shall be exempt from license tax and tax on License-tax, etc., exemption.its railway and railway property during the period of construction and for five years thereafter: *Provided*, That the total period of exemption *Proviso.*Limit.shall not exceed ten years from the time of the passage of this Act. Sixth. Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Amendment.Act. Seventh. Nothing herein contained shall be taken as vacating or Restriction.impairing the reserved shore roadway and riparian rights provided for under the said Act approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred Vol. 30, p. 409.and ninety-eight.
Approved, June 30, 1906.