forfeiture, in each case of such neglect or refusal, of a sum not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, to be recovered by the Attorney-General of the United States in the name and for the use and benefit of the United States; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, in all such cases of neglect or refusal as aforesaid, to inform the Attorney-General of the facts, to the end that such forfeiture or forfeitures may be judicially enforced. SECTION 6. This act shall apply to any and all persons or corporations into whose hands either of said railroads may lawfully come, as well as to the original compa nies. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect on and after the first day of July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Approved, June 19, 1878. APPENDIX B. List of railroad companies included in the act approved June 19, 1878, entitled “An act to create an Auditor of Railroad Accounts, and for other purposes." Bonds, lands, right of way, depot grounds, and materials have been granted by the United States to the following corporations: 1. Union Pacific Railroad Company. 2. Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, including the Western Pacific Railroad Company of California, with which it was consolidated June 23, 1870. 3. Kansas Pacific Railway Company, formerly "Union Pacific Railway Company (Eastern Division),” and prior to that the "Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company." 4. Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, deemed to be a part and extension of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, to the point of junction thereof with the road of the Union Pacific Railroad Company at Cheyenne, by act of Congress approved June 20, 1874. 5. Central Branch Union Pacific Railroad Company, formerly "Atchison and Pike's Peak Railroad Company." 6. Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company. Lands, right of way, depot grounds, and materials have been granted by the United States to the following corporations: 7. Texas and Pacific Railway Company, formerly "Texas and Pacific Railroad Company." 8. Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California. 9. Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 10. Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company of Missouri, successor in the State of Missouri to the "Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company." 11. Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, still owner of the railroad west of Missouri. 12. Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company in Nebraska, assignee of the "Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company" of Iowa. 13. Oregon and California Railroad Company, formerly "Oregon Central Railroad Company of Salem," Oregon. 14. Oregon Central Railroad Company of Oregon. 15. New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad Company of Louisiana. Lands, right of way, depot grounds, and materials have been granted by the United States to the States named, to aid in the construction of the following railroads: 16. Missouri-Hannibal and Saint Joseph Railroad. 17. Missouri and Arkansas-Saint Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, including the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. 18. Arkansas-Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway. 19. Arkansas-Memphis and Little Rock Railroad. 20. Kansas-Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway. 21. Kansas-Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad. 22. Kansas-Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad. 23. Kansas-Missouri River, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad. (The lands having been reconveyed to the United States, the railroad is no longer considered a land-grant road.) 24. Kansas-Saint Joseph and Western Railroad, late Saint Joseph and Denver City Railroad 25. Iowa-Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, between Burlington and the Missouri River. 26. Iowa-Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. 27. Iowa-Cedar Rapids and Missouri River Railroad. 28. Iowa-Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad. 29. Iowa Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad. 30. Iowa and Minnesota-Sioux City and Saint Paul Railroad. 32. Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway. 33. Wisconsin-Wisconsin Central Railroad. 34. Wisconsin-Chicago, Saint Paul and Minneapolis Railroad, late "West Wiscon sin." 35. Wisconsin-North Wisconsin Railroad. 36. Minnesota-Winona and Saint Peter Railroad, owned and operated by the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company. 37. Minnesota-Southern Minnesota Railway. 38. Minnesota-Saint Paul and Duluth Railroad. 39. Minnesota-Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, First Division. 40. Minnesota-Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, First Division, Branch Line. 41. Minnesota-Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, Saint Vincent Extension. 42. Louisiana-Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad. 43. Louisiana-Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad. 44. Missouri-Missouri Pacific Railroad, formerly "Southwest Branch Pacific Railroad." 45. Minnesota-Stillwater and Saint Paul Railroad. 46. Minnesota-Saint Paul, Stillwater and Taylor's Falls Railroad. * ands estimated and certified to these two companies are probably included in the lands of the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad Company. "That * * * said company shall at all times transmit dispatches over said telegraph line, and transport mails, troops and munitions of war, supplies and public stores upon said railroad for the government, when required to do so by any department thereof, and that the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for all the purposes aforesaid, (at fair and reasonable rates of compensation not to exceed the amounts paid by private parties for the same kind of service ;)" B. "That the grants aforesaid are made upon the condition that the said railroad companies shall keep said railroad and telegraph in repair and use, and shall at all times transport the mails upon said railroad, and transmit dispatches by said telegraph line for the government of the United States when required so to do by any department thereof, and that the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of said railroad and telegraph therefor at fair and reasonable rates of compensation, not to exceed the rates paid by private parties for the same kind of service. "And said railroad shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the government of the United States free of all toll or other charges upon the transportation of the property or troops of the United States; and the same shall be transported over said road at the cost, charge and expense of the corporations or companies owning or operating the same, when so required by the government of the United States." C. 579 "That said road shall be subject to the use of the United States for postal, military and all other governmental services at fair and reasonable rates of compensation, not to exceed the price paid by private parties for the same kind of service, and the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for the purposes aforesaid." 11 14 297 D. * 295 "That the said company shall not charge the government higher rates E. "And the said railroads shall be and remain public highways, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States." F. "And the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States." |