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CHAPTER 6C.AX ACT Prescribing the tcrius aud conditions ou which the State will relinquish aud convey to the l»cs Moines Railroad Company certain right and privileges in rc-pect to I he Resumption of Lands hereto* fore granted to said Company.IV u;:beas, By an act of Congress approved August 8, 1845, there was granted to the then Territory of Iowa certain lands to aid in the improvement of the Des Moines River, in said Territory, which grant the State of Iowa, by j':ut Resolution to the General Assembly, approved January 9, 1847, accepted for the pur-posos therein specified ; and,\N iii.ii i:as, Tbc General Assembly of this *a*.e, by an act apnr.vcd March 22, 1858, which granted fuch portion of said lands as had not been previously disposed of, to the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines Minnesota Railroad Company, to aid in tbc construction of a 1 railroad from tbc City of Keokuk up aud • long the Valley of the Pcs Moines River by the way of the City of hti Moines to the northern line of the State, in the direction ot the southern bend of the Minnesota and 8f. Peters River, and providing that said grant should become ©porativ* when the conscut of Congress to the diversion of said lands should be obtained, or the title thereto vested in the Mare ; and also imposing upon said company in case of its acceptance of said grant certain conditions aud restrictions, among which it was provided that said company would complete seventy-five miles of said load wiii.in three years, thirty-three miles each year thereafter for five years and tho whole line on or beforo the first day of December 1808; and, iii:reas, Such consent of Congrofs to the diversion was given by an act approved July 12, 1802, and said company afterwards accepted said grant; and,Wuebkas, Said Keokuk, Fort Des Moines Minnesota Railroad Company is now known as and called the Des Moines Valley Railroad Lou'pony; and,Wiibbeas, Said Railroad, [company] is in default in respect to the time of construction of said road, aud in the performance of other conditions of said grant, whereby tho State has a right to resume the whole or part of said lands; therefore,Stcriox 1. £c it enacted by the General Ai»a*bly of the State qf /orft, That tho re* served rights and Interests of tho State in re* npoct to the resumption and disposal of said lands are hereby relinquished to and conferred upon said Dos Moines Valley Railroad Company in the manner, and upon the performance of the conditions precedent by said Company, as hereinafter set forth, and not otherwise, vis:Pint—That U shall bo the duty of the Register of the State Land Office as soon as practicable, and beforo the first day of July 1808, to set apart and reserve from tho remaining river lands within the grant and lying in pUee next north of township No. Niaoty, and j upon which there are no settlers claiming ; homestead rights, and exclusivo'also of the ten sections set opart and ssld to SII Taft, onesaid railroad company. The said railroad company shall also have not les.-* than sixty* five miles of said road uom liicir present terminus graded during t'.e present aud ensuing calendar year.fifth—Thar as *oon a* satisfactory evidence shall be furniiiiodtc tho Governor that all me claims pro\ idnd frr have been settled anl paid, or fully disdrarged, whether by :iie .-ale of the land, or by payments made by said rail road company, he slut!! execute and deliver to the Des Moines Valley Railroad Company, cr to their assigns, a deed or deeds iu the name of the S.ate of Iowa, without warranty, for all tho lauds embraced in tho said act of Cou-grcss, approved July i2ih sa.e uud except the nue hundred thou.-aml acres hereinbefore reserved by an act passed prior hereto by the State of Iowa tor the protection or benefit of settlers or pcrsoss claiming homesteads thereon, and the settlement made and approved June 2Jtli hy tho Census Hoard of tho Stato of low a with tho Moines Valley Railroad Company, aud the settlement with tho Culled Stato* therein referred to are h«x\Vy ratified aril coufi rn.es!.»Sec. 2. In case of non-compliance by snid railroad company, wiih the foregoing conditions by it to be pci formed, then, without further legislation, this act shall have the force and effect of :iu uct of resumption aud all the rights of said company in and to siid lands or any pin thereof, heretofore or hereby gran ted to said company, aud not at the time of such failure actually conveyed by ihc state to said company, shall be forfeited to and revested in the State of Iowa, as full as if the grant thereof had never been tnadu by tho Suite,Sec. 4. Tills act shall be accepted by tho said lailroad company, and cvidcucfd by the signature of the 1‘rcsideut aud Secretary of •aid company, with the corporate seal thereof, within thirty days from tue approval ol’ this act, but the non-acceptance by tho said Des-Moirics Valley Railroad Company of the act shall not prevent all the foregoing provision* thereof from having the same operation aud effect as if the sauio had beeu accepted by-said company. The couii*auy accepting the provisions of this act shall at all times be sab jeer to such rules, regulations and rate of tariff for transportation of freight and passengers as may from time to time be enacted by theGeocral Assembly of the State of Iowa.Sec. 4. So much of section threo of chapter 108, of the laws of the Tenth Gcucrul As-•crably, aud relating ihcroto, including section five of said chapter, as requires tho lauds hereinbefore referred to, or auy part thereof, to be classified or graded *jy commissioners, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act arc hereby repealed.Sec. 5. This act shall be in forco and havo effect Troui aud after i.s publication in tho State Register aud Evening Statesman, papers published iu De*Moines Iowa.Approved March 31. 1«JS.1 hereby certify that tbs foregoing lot took effect by publieatioa, as required by Section k thereof, on the 2d day of April, A. D. 1808. .ED. WRIGHT, Scey of (Hat*
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Tama County Republican
Toledo, Iowa, US
Fri, Apr 17, 1868
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