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Both these Companies will, by law, be entitled to ten alter-
nate odd sections of land on each side of their road, not sold,
reserved, or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and
to which a pre-emption or homestead claim may not have
been attached.

The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, (properly the
Southern Division), agreeably to the act of July 3, 1866,
receives, on the completion of sections of at least twenty miles
of its road, $16,000 per mile, for a distance from its initial
point at the mouth of the Kansas River, as far westward as
would be equal to the length of its road, had it, according to
the act of July 1, 1862, joined the Pacific Railroad on the one
hundredth meridian of longitude, between the north bank of
the Platte River, and the south bank of the Republican Fork
of the Kansas River. This road is entitled, in addition, on the
completion of sections of not less than twenty miles of its
road, to ten alternate odd sections of land on each side of its
line, subject to the reservations, as in the case of the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad before stated.

The Atchison and Pike’s Peak Railroad, or Pacific extension
of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, on the completion
of sections of not less than twenty miles, gets bonds of
$16,000 and ten alternate sections of land on each side of the
road, per mile, but only for a distance of one hundred miles
west from Atchison.

The Sioux City Pacific Railroad under the act of July 2,
1864, is entitled to bonds of $16,000 per mile on the comple-
tion of sections of not less than twenty miles, for a distance
from the initial point at Sioux City, not greater than it would
have been entitled to under the act of July 1, 1862, which re-
stricted its junction with the Union Pacific, at a point not
farther west than the one hundredth meridian of west longi-
tude. This road also gets land, but only to the extent of five
alternate sections within a limit of ten miles on each side of
the road, with the same restrictions as stated in the case of
the roads already mentioned.