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States are concerned. All rights of action, however, for any 

 breach of such contract by the contracting parties are reserved 

 to the United States. 



HIGHWAYS. 



REVISED STATUTES, SECTION 2477. . 



The right of way for the construction of highways over public 

 lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted. 



RAILROADS. 



ACT OF MARCH :. is7.~> < 1 s STAT., 482.) 



The right of way through the public lands of the United 

 States is hereby granted to any railroad com- 

 [ pany duly organized under the laws of any 

 through , public finds. State or Territory, except the District of Co- 

 lumbia, or by the Congress of the United 

 States, which shall have tiled with the Secretary of the In- 

 terior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of 

 its organization under the same, to the extent 

 w ;j.; dt f of one hundred feet on endi side of the cen- 



tral line of said road; also the right to take, 

 from the public lands adjacent to the line of said road, mate- 

 rial, earth, stone, and timber necessary for the construction of 

 said railroad; also ground adjacent to such 

 t* 1 ***' right of way for station buildings, depots, 



machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and 

 water stations, not to exceed in amount twenty acres for each 

 station, to the extent of one station for each ten miles of its 

 road. 



Si:c. 2. That any railroad company whose right of way, or 

 whose track or roadbed upon such right of 

 yon? pass"or defile!"" vvav - 1>'' ISS( ' S through any canyon, pass, or 

 defile, shall not prevent any other railroad 

 company from the use and occupancy of said canyon, pass, or 

 defile, for the purposes of its road, in common with the road 

 first located, or the crossing of other railroads at grade. And 

 the location of such right of way through any canyon, pass, or 

 defile shall not cause the disuse of any wagon or other public 

 highway now located therein, nor prevent the location through 

 the same of any such wagon road or highway where such road 

 or highway may be necessary for the public accommodation; 

 and where any change in the location of such wagon road is 

 necessary to permit the passage of such railroad through any 



