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96 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 103. 1864. said town as may be found practicable, and not further north of said gown than the north line of section twenty-two, township eighty north, of range nineteen, according to the United States surveys, if the citizens of the county of Jasper shall first pay to said company the difference in cost, if any, between the line proposed by the company and the one contemplated by this proviso, including extra cost of right of way, if any, said difference in cost to be estimated by competent engineers to be selected by the parties. company", Sm. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever such new location file map showing shall have been established, the said railroad company shall file in the 1°°¤'*i°¤- general landoffice at Washington a map, definitely showing such new Secretary of location; and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be certified and g?:;;;? conveyed to said company from time to time, as the road progresses, out to c0mp,m§_ of any public lands now belonging to the United States not sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed ofQ or to which a. preemption claim or right of homestead settlement has not attached, and on which a bona fide settlement and improvement has not been made under color of title derived from the United States or from the State of Iowa, within six miles of such newly located line, an amount of land per mile equal to that originally authorized to be granted to aid in the construction of said road by the act to which this is an amendment; and if the amount of land granted by the original act to aid in the construction of said railroad shall not be Limits ofse- found within the limit of six miles from such line, then such selections l°°“°”*{· may be made along such line within twenty miles thereof: Provided, P'°‘"‘°‘ That the said company shall not be entitled to, and shall not receive, any land under this grant which is situate within fifteen miles of the line of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, as indicated by the map of said road, now on file in the general land-office. The Bmjlingy S20. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Burlington and Missouri gggng B35S8g" River Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the to ,m.,i,1°;gndg_ State of Iowa, and to which said state granted a portion of the land-grant mentioned in the title of this act to aid in the construction of a railroad from Burlington in said state to the Missouri River, shall be entitled to receive, and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be certified and conveyed to said company from time to time, as the road progresses, out of any public lands now belonging to the United States not sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed of} or to which a preemption claim or right of homestead settlement has not attached, and on which a bona fide settlement and improvement has not been made under color of title derived Limits of se- from the United States or from the State of Iowa., within six miles of said l°°°‘°”‘· road, as now located, an amount of land per mile equal to that mentioned in the act to which this act is an amendment, as intended to aid in the construction of said road; and if the amount of land granted by the original act to aid in the construction of said road shall not be found within the limit of six miles from the line of said road, then such selections may be made along such line within twenty miles thereofZ The Cedar _ SEC- 4. And be it furzher enacted, That the Cedar Rapids and Mis- 5;_%d§;;;_l Souri River Railroad Company, a corporation established under the laws pc. may change of the State of Iowa, and to which the said state granted a portion of the Esggiggsg :;**1 land mentioned in the title to this act, may modify or change the location M_ m` of the uncompleted portion of its line, as shown by the map thereof now on file in the general landioffice of the United States, so as to secure a better and more expeditious line to the Missouri River, and to a connection with the Iowa branch of the Union Pacific Railroad ; and for the purpose of facilitating the more immediate construction of a line of railroads across the State of Iowa, to connect with the Iowa branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, aforesaid, the said Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad Company is hereby authorized to connect its hne by a branch with the line of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad