Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — LAPSED LAND GRANTS. [ARTICLE]

LAPSED LAND GRANTS.

Bills to Forfeit Them to the Government. Judge Payson, of Illinois, has' introduced in the House bills to forfeit the followinglapsed and unearned land grants: The land grant to the Texas Pacific railroad, involving 1,500,000 acres; Oregon Central (Portland to Astoria) railroad, 1,180,000 acres; New Orleans and Jackson railroad, involving 1,000,000 acres, estimated; Elyton •& Beards Bluff railroad, 800,000 acres, estimated; Iron Mountain anq Arkansas railroad, 1,800,000 acres, estimated; Memphis and Charleston railroad, 800,000 acres, estimated; Savannah and Albany railroad, 1,200,000 acres, estimated; Gulf and Ship Island, and Tuscaloosa and Mobile 652,800 acre a and Mobile and New Orleans, involving 1,500,000 acres, estimated; Ontonagon and State Dine, involving 142,480; Oregon and California and California and Oregon railroads. unpatented lands, 4,168,307; certain lands of the Northern Pacific (Wallula to Portland, eto.), 5,504,000; Mobile and Girard, 482,421; certain land* of the Atlantic and Pacific east of Albuquerque, N. M., and west of Mojave, Cal., unpatented lands, about 1,500,000. Also a bill to create a Court of Appeals (the bill introduced by) Senator Davis in the Senate and Mr. Payson in the House in the For-ty-seventh Congress). And a bill for an amendment to the Constitution to permit the President to veto items in a general appropriation bill.