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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 153,154, 157. 1838.
Route to besurveyed, &.c.
If the roadshall be aban-doned, this actto be void.
Tolls.
Proviso.
Sec. Treas. tomake arrange-ment for saidpayment.
So much of act25th Feb. 1836,ch. 40. as relatesto the Bank ofAlexandria, ex-tended, &c.
A tract oflandon the Coosariver granted to
as little delay as may be convenient, and at all events within one yearfrom the passage of this act, and at their own expense, cause the routeof said road and the sites which they may select for depots, watering-places, or workshops, to be surveyed and designated through said publiclands by plain marks and monuments; and copies of the field-notes of thesurvey, with a map or plat of the said route and of said sites and of theconnection of said route with the previous official surveys of the adja-cent lands, shall be returned to the office of the Surveyor General ofthat land district and to the General Land Office at Washington.
Sec. 6. And be it f urther enacted, That if the said road shall beabandoned or discontinued, or if the route shall cease to be used bysaid company for the purposes of a railroad, then and in that case thisact and the privileges hereby granted shall cease and be void, and theland occupied by said road shall revert to the United States .
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That Congress may at any time,until said Territory shall be admitted as a State, prescribe and regulatethe tolls to be received by said company, and after said Territory shallbe admitted as a State, the Legislature thereof shall possess the likepower, and said act of incorporation is hereby approved, subject to themodifications and conditions aforesaid.
Approved, June 28, 1838.
Chap. CLIII .—Jin Act to provide for paying certain pensions at Tuscaloosa , inthe State of Alabama .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Warbe, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to establish a pensionagency at Tuscaloosa, in the State of Alabama , for the payment of pen-sioners of the United States resident in the counties of Pickens, Sumter,Green, Marengo, Perry, Bibb, Tuscaloosa , Jefferson, Walker, Fayette,Shelby, Randolph, and Talladega, in the State of Alabama : Provided,That no additional expense shall be incurred in the establishment ofsaid pension agency.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Trea-sury be, and hereby is, authorized to make the necessary arrangementsfor the payment of said pensioners.
Approved, June 28, 1338.
Chap. CLIV r . —An Act to extend the charier of the Banlc of Alexandria , in the city
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That so much ofthe act entitled “An act to extend the charters of the Bank of Colum-bia, in Georgetown, and the Bank of Alexandria, in the city of Alexan-dria, ” approved the twenty-fifth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as relates to the Bank of Alexandria in the city of Alexandria , be,and the same is hereby, extended in its duration to the fourth of March,eighteen hundred and forty-one.
Approved, July 5, 1838.
Chap. CLVII. —An Act to grant to Cherokee county, Alabama , the trad of landon which the seat of justice of said county has been located.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, andhereby is, granted to the county of Cherokee, in the State of Alabama ,
(a) See notes to the act of May 31, 1838, chap. 91.