THATthe right of way is hereby granted to the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company for the Railroad contemplated by said company to be constructed from Mobile to its northern terminus on the Ohio or Mississippi Rivers at or near the mouth of the Ohio; and the said Company is hereby authorized to locate said Road through and of the public lands of the United States which may lie on the route which may be selected for the location of said road. And the said Company is hereby authorized to survey and mark through the said public lands, the track of said road one hundred feet in width and furthermore an additional quantity of twenty five feet in width on each side of said road along the same, which land shall be reserved from sale and the title whereof shall be vested in the State wherein such land shall lie for the use of said Rail Road Company forever, and for no other use whatever.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company shall have the privilege and the same is hereby granted to them, to cut and use all such timber and to use all earth, stone, sand, gravel mineral and

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other materials on the public lands of the United States which may be necessary for the construction or repair of said road and to build bridges or construct buildings truss work or other erections such as the same may require, and use such water as may be wanted, and cross such streams as shall be necessary for the completion and use of said Road.

Resolved That the Bill from Senate (No. 398) entitled “An Actto grant the right of way to the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company. do pass with the following

Add at the end of the bill. “Provided, That the said railroad company when ^the said railroad shall be^ completed, shall carry the mails of the United States at such terms as the Postmaster General shall be able to contract for similar services with other railroad companies.”

Attest,