THIBTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 28. 1856. 9 fourteen days, in any of the wars speciied in the first section of the said {GT3 *}°;0m“*‘ act, whether such persons were or were not mustered into the service of Viz; m Scrthe United States. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the widows and minor children of all such persons as are specified in the last preceding section of this Same subject. act, and are now dead, shall be entitled to the same privileges as the widows and minor children of the beneficiaries named in the act: to which this is an amendment. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, Thai; when any company, battalion, or regiment, in an organized form, marched more than twenty miles to _ Allowmiqe of the place where they were mustered into the service of the United States, 2;‘$ij€ai?;;;.$gm or were discharged more than twenty miles from the place where such homey, pim, company, battalion, or regiment was organized, in all such cases, in com- of muster or puting the length of service of the officers and soldiers of any such com- d‘s°h’“g°‘ pany, battalion, or regiment, there shall be allowed one day for every twenty miles from the place where the company, battalion, or regiment was organized to the place where the same was mustered into the service of the United States, and also one day for every twenty miles from the place where such company, battalion, or regiment was discharged, to the place where it was organized, and from whence it marched to enter the service: Provided, That such march was in obedience to the command p,O,,;s0_ or direction of the President of the United States, or some general officer of the United States, commanding an army or department, or the chief executive officer of the State or Territory by which such company, battalion, or regiment was called into service. A1>1>R0vED, May 14, 1856. CHAP. XXVIII. ——An Act making a Grant of Lands to the State of Iowa, in alternate May 15, 1856. Sections D0 aid in the Construction of certain Railroads in said Stale. '_';"`"` Be it enacted [gg the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unified States ofAr1u2rica in Congress assembled, That: there be and is hereby granted to the State of Iowa, for the purpose of aiding in the construction Gr=m’¤ of iaqd of railroads from Burlington, on the Mississippi River, to a point on the Qggggva f" ml' Missouri River near the mouth of the Platte River; from the city of ` Davenport, via Iowa City and Fort Des Moines, to Council Bluffs; from Lyons City nerthwesterly to a point of intersection with the main line of the Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, near Maquoketa, thence on said main line, running as near as practicable to the forty-second parallel across the said State to the Missouri River, from the city of Dubuque to a point on the Missouri River near Sioux City, with a branch from the mouth of the Tete Des Morts to the nearest point on said road, to be completed as soon as the main road is completed to that point., every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads. But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are Other 1am15m definitely fixed, sold any sections, or any parts thereof, granted as afore· {QB S°lt93€d in ld said, or that the right of preemption has attached to the same, then it Qftélzémzig? shall be lawful for any agent or agents, to be appointed by the governor of said State, to select, subject to the approval of the Secretary to the Interior, from the lands of the United States nearest to the tiers of sections above specified, so much land, in alternate sections, or parts of seetions, as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold or otherwise appropriated, or to which the rights of preemption have attached as aforesaid; which lands (thus selected in lieu of those sold and [to] which preemption rights have attached, as aforesaid, together with the sections, and parts of sections, designated by odd numbers as aforesaid, and appropriated as aforesaid) shall be held by the State of Iowa for the use and purpose aforesaid: Provided, That the land to be vox,. xr. PUB. — 2
