§ 12. Interference with liens of United States

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1888

   Pub. L. 50–772 § 4 · 25 Stat. 382

   Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 12

   (Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 4, 25 Stat. 383.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Aug. 7, 1888, ch. 772, § 4, 25 Stat. 383.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That in order to secure and preserve to the United States the Attorney-General to prevent interference with rights of Government. full value and benefit of its liens upon all the telegraph lines required to be constructed by and lawfully belonging to said railroad and telegraph companies referred to in the first section of this act, and to have the same possessed, used, and operated in conformity with the provisions of this act and of the several acts to which this act is supplementary, it is hereby made the duty of the Attorney-General of the United States, by proper proceedings, to prevent any unlawful interference with the rights and equities of the United States under this act. and under the acts herein before mentioned, and under all acts of Congress relating to such railroads and telegraph lines, and to have legally ascertained and finally adjudicated all alleged rights of all persons and corporations whatever claiming in any manner any control or interest of any kind in any telegraph lines or property, or exclusive rights of way upon the lands of said railroad companies, or any of them, and to have all contracts and provisions of contracts set aside and annulled which have been unlawfully and beyond their powers entered into by said railroad or telegraph companies, or any of them, with any other person, company, or corporation.

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