Excerpt from Pacific Railroads in Congress, 1877 and 1878: Proceedings Compiled From Official Records; Opinion of United States Court of Claims in Five Per Cent Case Sec. 2. That the whole amount of compensation whio time to time, be due to said several railroad companies res services rendered for the Government shall be retained by States, oneohalt' thereof to be presently applied to the lignit interest paid and to be paid by the United States upon issued by it as aforesaid, to each of said corporations sever other half thereof to be turned into the sinking-fund herel dad, for the uses therein mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.