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hundred thousand acres «f land* which •ball l»e especially held 10 ***\.re tin pwym«*ni of the claims described in sections I ••'.I 2 ul chapter 22 of tbs l**i«f «b* Mb Omni Assembly of low*, and also of such claims • Imre been or msy be allow oil io ibc p«e* General Assembly.frecmf- Tint if the tald De* Mel nee Vn; Railroad Companyshall fail to pay in fallen 1 ; discharge all the claim* in the precc ll®ff 13f“ egrapli mentioned, l.y or before the Rest Jay of July next, then it ahall be the duty **f the Register of (be State Lend Office, «til h t« heri by required to proceed immediately to sell at his office in Ie§ Moinee, for cash, to the highest bidder for not less than one dollar and fifty cents per acie. all the lands reserved by the preceding paragraph, or so much thtiejf as shall prodnce the amount of money remaining duo nud unpaid on such claim; provided that he shall first advertise the sale of euoh 6 | lands for not less limn sixty days in four 1 j different newspaper* published one tn?prin»-’ ; vale, one in Fort Dodgt, one in Dcs Maine*» J and one in Keokuk, Iowa ; an J pronJrd *urt\-1 er, that auch lands shall be sell by him in quantities not less than forty acre* nor t. re than one hundred a*d sixty acres each, md that the warrants issued by the Si» e Auditor on account of tl-e claims aforesaid s.. .. be received aa cash in payment of Ian Is bought at such sale; and pron UJ further, that said company shall have tLe right to pay said claim* at any tiiac before such sale of the lands.TAird—That upon each sale and paytn nt of the purchase money, the Register shall »«-sue a certificate to the purchaser, showing the land purchased by him and the amount paid therefor; and upon the presentation thereof ♦o the Governor he shall execute to the purchaser a deed in :be came of lb* .State of low*, without warranty, conveying the land*’ j purchased, which the deed shall hi- effw u*\ to pa*s all the right and title thereto now h 11 by the State, or which may h reufter he at-piired by the State from the tolled Staua; and all moneys, the prt-ceeds *»f the rales as I aforesaid, shall be by the Register pal 1 to-I to the State Treasury Tor the use of the holders of unpaid claims herein piovided lor: which shall be paid in the Older specified ill section 1 chapter 22 of the laws of the 11th General Assembly, spaa the production and st rrenJer of tbe warrants therefor: nnl if ! there should be au amount insufficient to pa/ r! the * arno In full, then the s*tno shall be paid i ’ pro ri’’/ ; and if there shall remain a balance 1 t after p tying the s».no in full, such bnlat CY shall It paid over to said Railroad Copan. -Fourt\ —That the Register of the Stale Lan l i i Office §bci\ ai soon as practicable and prior to the tlrsf day ot July n*x», select fioia tie lands cuibrri d in the said act of Congress, appro?.d July 12, l'»*2. excluding the Ian Is i reserved and tix cribed in the first paragr .plt ' thereof, one bun lei thousand acres of sal 1 I land cf average tb'oe as near as ptact'cable, 1 | and embracing the Jen sec.ions sold to S. IJ0 t Taft; and (ho l.itxl* f. •elected, us well n.1 the \ • proceeds of-any portion fkercof now sold, shall * be held aud applied exclusively for the con-; st ruction ofeaii railroad abot* Ihf Moines1 ! as now provided by law aal shall .he c. iv.y-ed and patented to said toiircxd company, orto such person or persons as they shall direc;, only upon the completion of said rai’.ro.tt into tbe town of Ft. K ge, situated on thceaaialdo of ilie Dcs Moines river, within t ho year ljjTtJ wnich slid Co. f.grce* do and the evidence of snch completion suail be the running of trims into said town witaiu the tiruo apecifi-ed, a; d none of said lands shall bo patented • • until such completion, ac 1 the proceeds of nuy portsea theraf sold unfUr.provisions of exi • ing law lhall be at the wane time pah! over to said railroad company. The said railroad company shall also have not less than sixty-five miles of said road from tiieir present ter-
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Tama County Republican
Toledo, Iowa, US
Fri, Apr 17, 1868
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