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THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 216, 217. 1864. 365 secutive miles of the road mentioned in the foregoing section, in the manner provided for other roads mentioned in this act, and the- act to which this is an amendment, the President of the United States shall appoint three commissioners to examine and report to him in relation thereto ; and if it shall appear to him that twenty miles of said road have been com- Pmm to Plated as required by this act, then, upon certincate of said commission- i,,,,,, er[s] to that effect, patents shall issue conveying the right and title to said lands to said company on each side of said road, as far as the same is completed, to the amount aforesaid; and such examination, report, and conveyance, by patents, shall continue from time to time, in like manner, until said road shall have been completed. And the President shall appoint said commissioners, fill vacancies in said commission, as provided in relation to other roads mentioned in the act to which this is an amendment. And the said company shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities granted to the Hannibal and Saint Joseph’s Railroad Company by the said last-mentioned act, so far as the same may be applicable : Provided, Provises. That no government bonds shall be issued to the said Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company to aid in the construction of said extension of its road: And provided, further, That said extension shall be completed within the period of ten years from the passage of this act. Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That before any land granted by _ Cost <>fs¤rv¤y· this act shall beconveyed to any company or party entitled thereto under ;)“jA‘%,‘Qg,:§ ;’f,,_ this act, there shall Erst be paid into the treasury of the United States, veyances are the cost of surveying, selecting, and conveying the same, by the said com- ¤¤¤dé· pany or party in interest, as the titles ·shall be required by said company, which amonmt shall, without any further appropriation, stand to the credit of the proper account, to be used by the commissioner of the general landoffice for the prosecution of the survey oi' the public lands along the line of said road, and so from year to year until the whole shall be completed, as provided under the provisions of this act. · Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That congress may, at any time, al- This set may ter, amend, or repeal this act. M aimed. &°· APPROVED, July 2, 1864. CHA?. CCXVII. -An Act granting Lands to aid in the Construction ofa. Railroad and July 2, 1864. Telegraph Line from Lake Superior to Pugefs Sound, on the Paci]'ic·C'oast,`by the W Nmhem Rouse. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Mzitcd States of America in Congress assembled, That Richard D. Rice, John A, Noijthern Pavi- Poore, Samuel P. Strickland, Samuel C. Fessenden, Charles P. Kimball, ggtidgxggxqpggm Augustine Haines, Edwin R. W. Wiggin, Anson P. Morrih, Samuel J. ‘An- ated. derson, of Maine; Willard Sears, I. S. Withington, Josiah Perham, James Nélmgs °f °°¥'· M. Becket, A. w. Banana, Abu-.1 Abbott, Jenn Newell, Austin L. Rogers, *’°"‘*°”· Nathaniel Greene, jnr., Oliver Frost, John A. Bass, John O. Bresbrey, George Shiverick, Edward Tyler, F ilander _J. Forristall, Ivory H. Pope, of Massachusetts ; George Opdyke, Fairley Holmes, John Huggins, Philander Reed, George Briggs, Chauncy Vibbard, John C. Fremont, of New York; Ephraim Marsh, John P. Jackson, jr., of New Jersey; S. M. Felton, John Toy, O. J. Dickey, B. F. Archer, G. W. Cass, J. Edgar Thompson, John A. Green, of Pennsylvania; M. Allyn, Moses W. Wilson, Horace Whittaker, Ira Bliss, of Connecticut; Joseph A. Gilmore, Onslow Stearns, E. P. Emerson, Frederick Smyth, William E; Chandler, of New Hampshire; Cyrus Aldrich, H. M. Rice, John McKusick, H. C. Waite, Stephen Miller, of `Minnesota; E. A. Chapin, John Gregcry Smith, George Merrill, of Vermont; James Y. Smith, William S. Slater, Isaac H. Southwick, Earl P. Mason, of Rhode Island; Seth Fuller, William Kellogg, U. S. Grant, William B. Ogden, William G. Greene, Leonard Sweat, Henry W. Blodgett, Porter Sheldon, of Illinois; J.'M. Winchell, Elsworth Cheesebrough, James S. Emery, of Kansas; Richard 31 *