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Pacific Railway Acts
The Pacific Railway Act of 1862 (12 Statutes at Large, 489)as enacted by the United States] [[United States Congress|Congress, was approved and signed into law by the President, Abraham Lincoln, on July 1, 1862. Officially entitled "AN ACT to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes," some provisions of the original Act were subsequently modified, expanded, and/or repealed by four additional amending Acts passed in 18621864][[1865]and [[1866]largely on a proposed Pacific railroad [[Bill_%28proposed_law%29|bill] originally reported six years earlier on August 16, [[1856, to the 34th Congress (1st Session) by the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad and Telegraphthe Act as passed in 1862] authorized both the making of extensive [[land grantsin the Western] [[United States, and the issuance of 30-year, 6% U.
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