Chapter 181. Legalizing certain conveyances heretofore made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company
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CHAP. 181.— An Act Legalizing certain conveyances heretofore made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company.June 24, 1912. [[H. R. 16689](/us/bill/62/hr/16689).] [[Public, No. 200](/us/pl/62/200).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Union Pacific Railroad Company.Conveyances of land on right of way legalized. That all conveyances or agreements heretofore made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, or the Union Pacific Railway Company, or Union Pacific Railroad Company, or the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company, or the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, or the Kansas Pacific Railway Company, or the successors or assigns of any of 139them, of or concerning land forming a part of the right of way of the Union Pacific Railroad Company granted by the Government by the Act of Congress of July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. entitledVol. 12, p. 491.
“An Act to aid the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes”; and also all conveyances or agreements heretofore made by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, or the Union Pacific Railway Company, or the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, or the successors or assigns of any of them, of or concerning land forming a part of the right of way between Denver, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, of any of said companies granted by or held under any Act of Congress, and all conveyances or agreements confining the limits of said right of way, or restricting the same, are hereby legalized, validated, and confirmed to the extent that the same would have been legal or valid if the land involved therein had been held by the corporation making such conveyance or agreement under absolute or fee-simple title.
That in all instances in which title or ownership of any part of saidRights of adverse claimants. right of way heretofore mentioned is claimed as against said corporation, or either of them, or the successors or assigns of any of them, by or through adverse possession of the character and duration prescribed by the laws of the State in which the land is situated, such adverse possession shall have the same effect as though the land embraced within the lines of said right of way had been granted by the United States absolutely or in fee instead of being granted as a right of way.
Sec. 2. That any part of the right of way heretofore mentionedAbandoned lands granted to abutting owners. which has been, under the law applicable to that subject, abandoned as a right of way is hereby granted to the owner of the land abutting thereon. Sec. 3. That nothing hereinbefore contained shall have the effect toRight of way on main track not diminished. diminish said right of way to a less width than fifty feet on each side of the center of the main track of the railroad as now established and maintained: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be taken*Proviso*.No recognition of succession. or construed to be a recognition of any right in the Union Pacific Railway Company as successor in interest to the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Approved, June 24, 1912.