Excerpt from Pacific Railroad Commission: Speech of Hon. William W. Rice, of Massachusetts, in the House Section 1 of the act of 1862 creates the Union Pacific Railroad Company, with authority to build and operate a railroad from the one hundredth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich between the south margin of the valley of the Republican river and the north margin of the valley of the Platte river, in the Territory of Nebraska, to the western boundary of Nevada Territory. The sections imme diately succeeding make the grants of right of way and the subsidies of land and bonds, and prescribe the route of the road, and the terms upon which and the time within which the same shall be constructed. The one hundredth meridian within the limit defined in the first sec tion is about two hundred and forty miles west of the Missouri river. This road is spoken of in different sections of the act, and the acts amendatory thereof, as the main trunk line. 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.