Volume 15
Public Law 40–LXXX
to amend an Act entitled “An Act granting Lands to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in California, to Portland, in Oregon.
Approved June 25, 1868
Statutory text
An Act
to amend an Act entitled “An Act granting Lands to aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in California, to Portland, in Oregon.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Time of completion of rail-road and telegraph.
That section six of an act entitled “ An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific railroad, in California, to Port- land, in Oregon,” approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty- six, be so amended as to provide that instead of the times now fixed in said section, the first section of twenty miles of said railroad and tele- graph shall be completed within eighteen months from the passage of this act, and at least twenty miles in each two years thereafter, and the whole on or before the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty.
Approved, .