IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—Feprvary 14, 1855. 
Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the House, ten thousand copies of the reports of surveys for a railroad to the 
Pacific, made under the direction of the Secretary of War, embracing the report of F. W. Lander, civil engineer, of a survey 
of a railroad route from Puget’s Sound, by Fort Hall and the Great Salt lake, to the Mississippi river; and the report of J. C. 
Frémont, of a route for a railroad from the head-waters of the Arkansas river into the State of California; together with the 
maps and plates accompanying each of said reports necessary to illustrate them. | 
Attest : J. W. FORNEY, 
Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States. 
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION—Cuaprer 98. : 3 
Бест. 10. And be «t. further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, 
President of the United States, 
may deem necessary, to m 
authorized, under the direction cf the 
to employ such portion of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, and such other persons as he 
ake such explorations and surveys as he may deem advisable, to ascertain the most practicable and 
economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean; and th 
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, 
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expense of such explorations and su 
Appreved March 3, 1853. 
at the sum of one hundred and fifty 
appropriated, out of any money in the 
rveys. 
THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION—Cuaprer 60. 
Appropriation : For deficiencies for the railroad surveys between the Mississi 
dollars. 
Approved May 31, 1854. 
ppi river and the Pacific ocean, forty thousand 
THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION—Cuaprer 267. 
Appropriation: For continuing the explorations «nd surveys to ascertain the best route for 
completing the reports of surveys already made, 
Approved August 5, 1854. | 
a railway to the Pacific, and for 
the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—Marcn 25, 1860. 
Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of this House, ten thousand extra copies, in addition to the usual number, of 
Governor Stevens's final report of the exploration and survey of the northern ronte for a Pacific railroad. 
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