Nothing was done by the railway company under this grant until the 25th of March. 1870. when a map of definite location of the line of the road was filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior. Under the law as it then stood. and as it stands today. the public lands which were affected by the grant remained open to settlement until this map was filed. The laud lay in a section of the Union which was desirable. and a tide of immigration was then sweeping over the West. so that the land subject to this grant was being rapidly settled down to the time when the map of definite location was filed. which. as I have said. was on the 25th of March. 1.470. The notice of the filing of the map did not reach the local land offices until the 13th of April of the same year. and between the 25th Qf March and the 13th day of April (no notice having reached the section of country affected by the grant) entries of different kindshomestead. preemption. and private entrieswere of course permitted by the local land offices. The lands affected by this bill lie in six counties of the States of Kansas and Nebraska. and during the period between the two dates which I have mentioned one hundred and ninetysix different entries were made.
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