RVIL 194 RELIEF OF CERTAIN SETTLERS. mile, on each side of said railroad line, as such line may be adopted by said company through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad in California, where the same shall not have been sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed.” And whereas by section twenty-two of said act there was granted to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company, chartered by the State of Louisiana, its successors and assigns, in aid of the construction of a railroad from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, thence by the way of Alexandria. in said State, to connect with said Texas Pacific Railroad at its eastern terminus, the same number of alternate sections of public lands per mile, in the State of Louisiana, as were by said act granted in the State of California to said Texas Pacific Railroad Company. And whereas said New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company did, on the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eightyone, assign and convey all, its right. title, and interest in or to the grant of lands, aforesaid to the New Orleans Pacific Railroad Company, chartered by the [Page 2.] State of Louisiana, as shown by the original deed of assignment filed in the And whereas on March 19, 1885, the Secretary of the Interior transmitted to the General Land Office an official statement showing that the New Orleans Pacific Railway Company had constructed and equipped in the manner required by said act of March 3, 1871, a railroad from White Castle, in the State of Louisiana, to a connection with the Texas and Pacific Railway in the city of Shreveport, in said State, a distance of two hundred and sixty miles, and that pursuant to the report of the commissioner, appointed under the provisions of section eighteen of said act, said railroad had been accepted by the President in conformity with said act. And whereas certain tracts of land in the State of Louisiana have been selected under the act aforesaid by Felix Reynaud, the duly authorized land agent of the New Orleans Pacific Railway Company, as shown by his original lists of selections in the New Orleans district, dated November 13 and December 28, 1883, and certified by the register and receiver of the land office in said district on the same date. The said tracts of land lie coterminous with the constructed line of road and are particularly described as follows, to wit: South of base line and west of St. Helena, principal meridian Louisiana, New Orleans district, twenty-mile limits, township five, range one. The lot number one of section five, containing twenty-two acres and ninetysix hundredths of an acre. [Page 44.] South of base line and east of Louisiana, ten and the west half of section thirty-five, containing four hundred and eighty acres and twelve-hundredths of an acre. The said tracts as described in the foregoing make the aggregate area of (149,272.80) one hundred and forty-nine thousand, two hundred and seventytwo acres of eighty-hundredths of an acre. Now know ye, That the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, and pursuant to the said act of Congress, have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the said New Orleans Pacific Railway Company, successor and assignee as aforesaid, and to its successors, the tracts of land described in the foregoing, excluding and excepting, however, all "mineral lands should any such be found in the tracts aforesaid, but this exclusion and exception, according to the terms of the statute, "shall not be held to include iron or coal." To have and to hold the same, with the appurtenances, unto the said New [Page 45.] Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, on the third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and ninth. By the President: [SEAL.] CHESTER A. ARTHUR. By M. MCKEAN, Secretary. Fee for preparing and recording paid Mar. 3/85, by Hon. Wm. H. Barnum. See money letter 32363. S. W. CLARK, Recorder of the General Land Office. Patent trans., with letter of Mar. 3, 1885, to Hon. Wm. H. Barnum, Washington, D. C. Receipt ackd. by Judge Jno. F. Dillon, Mar. 3/85—(22730). DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Washington, D. C., January 29, 1914. I hereby certify that the annexed copy of railroad patent, No. 53, issued to the New Orleans Pacific Railway Company, is a true and literal exemplification from the record on file in this office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of this office to be affixed, at the city of Washington, on the day and year above written. [SEAL.] C. M. BRUCE, Assistant Commissioner of the General Land Office. [Patent No. 53, New Orleans Pacific Railway Lands. Primary limits. New Orleans Land Districts, Louisiana.] THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: 66 Natchitoches and Whereas, by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1871, entitled "An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes," there was granted to said Texas Pacific Railroad Company for the purpose of aiding in the construction of its railroad and telegraph line every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line as such line may be adopted by said company, through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad in California, where the same shall not have been sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed"; and Whereas by section twenty-two of said act there was granted to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company, chartered by the State of Louisiana, its successors and assigns, in aid of the construction of a railroad from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, thence by way of Alexandria, in said State, to connect with the said Texas Pacific Railroad at its eastern terminus, the same number of alternate sections of public lands per mile, in the State of Louisiana, as were by said act granted in the State of California to said Texas Pacific Railrod Company, to be selected upon the same terms and in the same manner as was provided for and required of said Texas Pacific Railroad Company, within the State of California; and Whereas said New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company did, on the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, assign and convey all its right, title, and interest in, or to, the grant of lands aforesaid to the New Orleans Pacific Railway Company, chartered by the State of Louisiana, as shown by the original deed of assignment filed in the General Land Office February 25, 1881; and Whereas, on March 19, 1883, the Secretary of the Interior transmitted to the General Land Office an official statement showing that the New Orleans Pacific Railway Company had constructed and equipped in the manner required by said act of March 3, 1871 a railroad from White Castle, in the State of Louisiana, to a connection with the Texas and Pacific Railway, in the city of Shreveport, in said State, a distance of two hundred and sixty miles, and that pursuant to the report of the commissioners appointed under the provisions of section eighteen of said act said railroad had been accepted by the President in conformity with said act; and Whereas, by act approved February 8, 1887, entitled "An act to declare a forfeiture of lands granted to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company, to confirm title to certain lands, and for other purposes," Congress relinquished and confirmed the title of the United States, and of the original grantee, to the lands granted by act of March 3, 1871, aforesaid and not therein declared forfeited, to the New Orleans Pacific Railway Company; and Whereas certain tracts of land have been listed under the acts aforesaid by the duly authorized land agent of said New Orleans Pacific Railway Company, as shown by his original lists of selections, approved by the local officers and now on file in the General Land Office; and Whereas said tracts of land lie coterminous with the constructed line of road, and are particularly described as follows, to wit: North of base line and west of the Louisiana meridian, State of Louisiana : Township four, range two: All of section twenty-nine, containing one hundred and fifty-three acres and thirty-three-hundredths of an acre. Township two, range four: The northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section seven, containing forty acres and sixty-eight-hundredths of an acre. Township nine, range eight: The lots numbered five and eight and the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section five, containing seventy-seven acres and fifty-six-hundredths of an acre. South of base line and east of the Louisiana meridian, State of Louisiana : Township three, range two: The southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section five, containing thirty-nine acres and seventy-hundredths of an acre. The said tracts of land as described in the foregoing make the aggregate area of three hundred and eleven acres and twenty-seven hundredths of an acre (311.27). Now, know ye, that the United States of America, in consideration of the premises and pursuant to the said acts of Congress, have given and granted, and by these presents do give and grant unto the said New Orleans Pacific Railway Company, successor and assignee as aforesaid, and to its successors and assigns, the tracts of land described in the foregoing; yet excluding and excepting, however, "all mineral lands," should any such be found in the tracts aforesaid, but this exclusion and exception, according to the terms of the statute, "shall not be held to include iron or coal." To have and to hold the same, with the appurtenances unto, the said New Orleans Pacific Railway Company and to its successors and assigns forever. In testimony whereof I, William McKinley, President, of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington, this eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth, [SEAL.] By the President: WILLIAM MCKINLEY. F. M. MCKEAN, C. H. BUSH, Recorder of the General Land Office. Conveying fees paid June 3, 1901, M. L. 118172. X |