[76] Report of chief engineer, Central Pacific Railroad of California, on his operations in the Atlantic states, 1862.
[77] 13 United States Statutes 356 (1864).
[78] For a full digest of the Acts of 1862 and 1864, and for an account of the Congressional history involved, the reader is referred to Haney, “A Congressional History of Railways.” Senator A. A. Sargent asserted in 1878 that he, Sargent, wrote the acts himself. (45th Congress, 2d Session, Congressional Record, Vol. 7. p. 2024.)
[79] Huntington manuscript, pp. 78-79. The act referred to appears in 14 United States Statutes 78-79.
[80] Report of the chief engineer on the preliminary survey of the Central Pacific Railroad, etc., October 22, 1862.
[81] United States v. Union Pacific, 91 U. S. 72 (1875).
[82] 12 United States Statutes 489 (1862), Sec. 6.
[83] United States Pacific Railway Commission, p. 2562, testimony W. H. Mills.
[84] The Western Pacific had received in addition two patents conveying 27,505.93 acres, but these lands were assigned by the Central Pacific to outside parties.
[85] United States Pacific Railway Commission, pp. 3569-70.