Chapter 177. Legalizing certain conveyances heretofore made by the Central Pacific Railroad Company and others within the State of Nevada
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CHAP. 177.— An Act Legalizing certain conveyances heretofore made by the Central Pacific Railroad Company and others within the State of Nevada.March 4, 1915.[[S. 5042](/us/bill/63/hr/5042).][[Public, No. 326](/us/pl/63/326).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Nevada.Central Pacific land grants.Conveyances under, legalized. That all conveyances heretofore made on or before January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, by the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, the Central Pacific Railroad Company, or the Central Pacific Railway Company, or the Contract and Finance Company, to the extent that the conveyances of the latter company were founded upon conveyances originally made by above-named railway companies, or either or any of them or their assigns, of or concerning land forming part of the right of way and now within the corporate town or city limits of the towns or cities of Elko, Carlin, Reno, Wells, and Winnemucca, in the State of Nevada, granted by the Government by the Act of Vol. 12, p. 495.Congress of July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “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 all other Acts of Congress amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto are hereby legalized, validated, and confirmed to the extent that the same would have been legal or valid if the land involved therein affected by this Act had been held by the corporation making such conveyances under absolute or fee-simple title, subject to the conditions hereinafter stated.
Sec. 2. Acceptance. That this Act shall have no validating force until the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, or its assigns, shall file with the Secretary of the Interior an instrument in writing accepting its terms and provisions. Sec. 3. Right of way not diminished. That nothing herein contained shall have the effect to 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.
Approved, March 4, 1915.