Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 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 following lapsed and unearned land grants: The land grant to the Texas Pacific railroad, involving 1,500,000 acres; Oregon Central (Portland to Astoria) railroad,. 1,130,000 acres; New Orleans and Jackson railroad, involving 1,000,000 acres, estimated; Elyton & Beards Bluff railroad, 800,000 acres, estimated; Iron Mountain and Arkansas railroad, 1,300,000 acres, estimated; Memphis and road, 800,000 acres, estimated; Savannah and Albany railroad, 1,200,000 acres, estimated; Gulf and Ship Island, and Tuscaloosa and Mobile 652,800 acres, and Mobile and New Orleans, involving 1,500,000 acres, estimated; Ontonagon and State Dine, involving 142,430; Oregon and California and California and Oregon railroadA unpatented lands, 4,168,307; certain lands of the Northern Pacific (Wallula to Portland, etc;), 5,504,000; Mobile and .Girard, 482,421; certain lands of the Atlantic and Pacific east of Albuquerque, N. M., and west of Mojave, Cai., unpatented lands, about 1,500,000. Also a bill to create a Court of Appeals (the bill introduced by Senator Davisjn the Senate and Mr. Payson in the Houhe inxtho 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. ,