THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 301, 302. 1866. 339 and when like proof shall be furnished that another section of ten miles of said road in said States or on the said branches respectively connecting with the preceding section is completed as aforesaid, the Secretary of the Interior shall issue patents in like manner as as in case of the first completed sections, and so on from time to time until the whole is completed as herein provided, when the Secretary of the Interior shall issue patents for all the remaining lands herein granted, not exceeding the aggregate amount provided for and located as required by sections one and two of this act: And provided further, That if one section of twenty Iftwenty miles miles of each of said railroads and branches shall not be fully constructed :§‘;;‘$,;;g";§L;:f, and completed as 2. first class railroad within three years from the time and at mst this act becomes a law, and at least one section of twenty miles on twenty miie; each of said roads and branches in each year thereafter, and the whole $f:,dg°;';d*ng' of said roads and branches within ten years from the time this act shall whom in mu take effect, then and in either of said cases all the lands granted or the Kgixgsgfgm grant of which is revived or extended by this act, and which at the time rm,,., to th, shall be unputeuted to or for the benefit of the road or company making United Statesor suffering such failure, shall revert to the United States. Sue. 3. And lie it further enactech That all the lands mentioned in this L¤¤d$ h¤*°b.Y _ . grunted to be act, and hereby granted, are hereby reserved from entry, pre-emptxon, or reserved from appropriation to any oth? purpose thanhherein c}>)ntem¢§>l;ted`,hfor me sagd eggs;-yk£ie~empterm of ten years i·0m the passage o this act: ravi e , at a lan s ‘ • ‘ . heretofore given to the State of Missouri for the construction of the Cairo mI§¥;g§u€-iv?;; and Fulton railroad, or for the use of said road lying in the State of C¢}i¤<>¤¤<i Fulm Missouri, and all lands proposed to be granted by this act for the use '“§kT;°;°;‘m be or in aid of the road herein named, and lying in said State of Mis- gntented to the souri, shall be granted and patented to the said State whenever the gf; be md road shall be completed through said State, which lands may be held and ,;,,,1 $0, by said State and used_ toward paying the State the amount of bonds here- w=¤¤;d_p=¤gn:§ tofore issued by it to aid said company, and all mterest accrued or to ° accrue they-eonl: Provfilediéurthzr, That the] pmviionsdofhthii :1%, saofag mgvhsgzxss sci as the same re ate tot e em is an itte oc an the it e c °$° °° *3 and Fort Smith branches of saiid road, shall not take effect until the Sec- Qiigzshg $3 retsry of the Interior shall make and ile a. certificate in his office and the Little Rock, and office of the Secretary of State of Arkansas, stating that the companies Ll<L“:é°s5£fL‘ *****1 or corporations claiming the benefit of this act in behalf of said branches bmmhescrmd, have reorganized their boards of directors in a lawful manner, and, after such reorganization, that they have respectively rescinded all acts, resolutions, or other proceedings, transferring the lands, rights, or privileges of such corporations or companies to any convention, State, or authority recognizing or acting in concert with, or under the authority of the late so-called confederate states of merica. Approved, July 28, 1866. July 2s, msc. CHAP. CCCI.—-An Act to autharizjlfhs Use my the Mein}: System of Weights and easures. Ba it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Ulzited States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage Use ofweigbts of this act it shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to ?,‘;1u’:‘;*;‘,;‘::‘;fSf’f employ the weights and measures of the metric system ; and no contract mm uumo,-ggcd, or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are wei rhts or measures o the metric s stem. Sm. 2. blind be it further enacted, That the tables in the schedule here- Tame, of to annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts, and in all ¢<1¤iV¤l°¤¤· legal proceedings, as establishing, in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States, the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system ; and said tables may be lawfully used for computing, determining, and expressing in customary weights and measures the weights and measures of the metric system.
