NP, GCGW 4/16A/1861

From the Galveston Civilian & Gazette Weekly
 
April 16, 1861
 
   The Legislature is still in session, and appears to have a large amount of unfinished business under consideration. As yet but few bill of importance have become laws. Among the matters acted on we observe the following
   Mr. Stockdalde, from the Committee on Internal Improvements, reported favorably to a bill to incorporate the Galveston & Houston Junction Railroad Company.
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   An act for the relief of Railroad companies had been passed. It provides that that portion of the Memphis, El Paso & Pacific Railroad between the city of Jefferson, in the county of Marion, and Morris' Landing, on sulphur fork of Red River, be entitled to receive certificates for land, whenever five miles are finished, for each mile thereof, ten certificates for land of six hundred and forty acres each, provided, that the provisions of this act shall apply and issue to the benefit of all the Railroads in this State, for the distance of forty-five miles, now organized and having an existing bona fide contract for the construction of not less than ten miles. 

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