Volume 15
Public Law 40–CCXLII
to extend the Time for the Construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the State of California.
Approved July 25, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
to extend the Time for the Construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the State of California.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Southern Pacific Railroad
Time for Southern Pacific R. R. Co. of California to construct first section of road, &c. extended.
Rest of road when to be built.
Company of the Slate of California shall, instead of the times now fixed by law for the construction of the first section of its road and tele graph line, have until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the construction of the first thirty miles, and they shall be required to construct at least twenty miles every year thereafter, and the whole line of their road within the time now provided by law.
Approved, .