Foam-mama coneanss. sees. u. ou. 170, 171 1875. 509 CHAP. 170.-An act to extend the time within which the board of audit for the March 3, 1875. District of Columbia may receive, audit, and allow certain claims that have never —-·-1;- been presented to said board. Be it enacted, by the senate and House of Represcnmtivu of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the board of audit consti- Time _¤x¢<=¤d<>d tuted by the actentitled "An act for the government of the District of ,_° fs { Columbia, and for other purp0ses," approved June twentieth, eighteen ]j,SmgQ Og @3,,,;] hundred and seventy-four, may receive, audit, and allow just claims bia. again t said District of the first and second classes mentioned in the sixth section of said act, and claims for rethnding sewer-taxes, not- 18,4 c_ 3;,-, ,,_ 6 withstanding the limit of time for presentation contained in said act, am, p.118., Res: and in the joint resolution to continue said board of audit, approved N0-2,1w¤¤`,523· December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four: Provided, That such claims shall be presented prior to the first day of July next Approved, March 8, 1875. CHAP. 171:-Au act granting the right of way throu h tho public lands to construct March 3, 1315, and maintain a railroad? -j———-—— Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives cj the United States of Amer-im in Congress assembled, That the right of way through Right or way the public lands is hereby granted to Daniel P. Holland, the proprietor ¤¤¤¤¤>d *0 Demi of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, his associates, suc- 1*;,;*; cessors and assigns, for the construction of a railroad in the States of ,,,,0;,, and 1;;,,;,,1,, Florida and Alabama from the present terminus of said railroad on the Railroad. Apalachicola River, in the State of Florida, through the States of Florida and Alabama, to the city of Mobile, Alabama; and from a point on the-line of said railroad to the city of Pensacola; and from a point opposite the corporate limits of the city of Jacksonville, on the Saint John’s River, to the city of Saint Augn tine, Florida; and the right, power, and authority are hereby·granted to said Daniel P. Holland, his successors, assigns, or associates to take from the public lands adjacent to the line of said railway, to the extent of one hundred feet in width on each side of the central line of said road where it may pass RM1, ,0 mM0d_ through the public lands, material for the construction and maintenance als. ° thereof; and the necessary grounds for stations and depots, or other _Gr¤und¤ for smuecessary places, such as turn-outs and water-stations, are hereby **°“S· &°· granted to said Daniel P. Holland, his successors or assigns, to an amount not exceeding twenty acres for each ten miles in length of main line of railroad where it may pass through the public lands: Provided, That within one year from the passage of this act the said Daniel P. Holland, proprietor of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, AccGp,nm,0 and his successors, assigns, or associates shall file with the Secretary of the mp 0 f 1-., n M; Interior his acceptance of this act and the map of the routes exhibiting wi¤e_ut¤1»en1en. _ the line of the road and the right to take material shall cease upon the al§*#é}{u;°t;“;*;;;;· completion of the said road. ’ ‘ Sec. 2. That said railroad shall be a postroute and a military road, Said road when. and Congress at any time may tix rates of tariff for 'troops, materials of m;“‘”Q:;*j1?"*:£;; war, and mails, and may add to, alter, or amend this act. of rim, ’ Sec. 3. That all acts and parts of acts condicting with this act be, and- Repeals. they are hereby, repealed.· Sec. 4. That if the said road shall not be completed and put in,0pera— Time qllvwed for tion within five years after the y assage of this act all rights herein °°'“Pl°“‘°“· granted shall cease and determine. Approved, March 3, 1875.