A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . alth in the shaj)e of• lands held by private of Jan. 30, In Govcmor Peases first administration, by the act of Tanu- 1854, in aid of o 1 £ railroads ^y 30. io54. the first general law for the encouragement of railroad construction by grants of land was passed. In its gen-eral provisions this law furnished the model and contained sub-stantially the same conditions as were embodied in all subsequentlegislation on the same subject, of which there has been a greatdeal from time to time. It provided that when any comj
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . alth in the shaj)e of• lands held by private of Jan. 30, In Govcmor Peases first administration, by the act of Tanu- 1854, in aid of o 1 £ railroads ^y 30. io54. the first general law for the encouragement of railroad construction by grants of land was passed. In its gen-eral provisions this law furnished the model and contained sub-stantially the same conditions as were embodied in all subsequentlegislation on the same subject, of which there has been a greatdeal from time to time. It provided that when any comj^anyhad constructed and put in running order twenty-five miles of GENERAL REVIEW OF PROGRESS. 443 t railroad, it could have thirty-two sections of public land sur-veyed for each mile of road so constructed, the land to be sur-veyed in square sections of six hundred and forty acres each,and every alternate section was donated to the railroad company,while the intervening sections were appropriated to the perma-ent fund of the public free schools of the State. ^. RAILROAD SYSTEM OF TEXAS Under these liberal inducements the building of railroads Progress inprogressed rapidly until interrupted by the Civil War in the restoration of peace and settled order, a renewedactixity characterized this with all other departments of domesticindustry, and the results have been most satisfactory. In 1857there had been incorporated by the State 41 railroad companies,of which 15 had forfeited their charters, and at tbe breakingout of the war in 1861 there were about 300 miles of railwayin Texas in detached sections. In 1865 there were 335 miles, 444 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS, I
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