Mr. DONNELLY. I ask unanimous consent to report from the ComPubLands Senate bill No. 221, relating to lands granted to the State of Minnesota to aid in the construction of railroads. The bill was read. It provides that when ever it shall appear that the U.S. have sold or disposed of any lands granted to the Territory or State of Minnesota for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroad s, after the passage of the act grantin the same, and after the definite location of tie line of road, and before the withdrawal of said lands from sale at the proper local land office, said State may by its agent select, in lieu of the lands so sold or disposed of, from any of the lands of the U.S. subject to sale, within 20 miles of the line of the proper road, a quantity of land equal to that so sold or disposed ofand the lands so selected shall be substitute for those so sold or disposed of by the U.S., and may be disposed of by said State in all respects as if sai substituted lands had been arcel of the original rant to the State. It urther provides that he time named in the act granting lands to the Territory of min nesota to aid in the construction of a certain railroad “from Saint Paul and from Saint Anthony, by the way of Minneapolis, to a convenient point of junetion west of the Mississippi river, to the southern boundary of the Territory, ” approved March 3, 1857, for the construction and completion ofsaid road, is hereby extended for 7 years from the passage of this net. It further provides that all the lands hereto fore granted to the TerritOry and State of minnesota to aid in the construction of railroads, shall be certified to said State by the SecyInterior, from time to time, whenever any of said roads shall be definitely located, and shall be disposed of by said State in the manner and upon the conditions provided in the particular act granting the same; provided that when the original quantity granted to aid in the construction of any road has been increased, the quantity authorized to be sold from time totime shall be increased correspondingly; and provided further, that on the completion of an ten miles of road the State may sell one ha fthe quantity of lands which said State is authorized to dispose of on the completion of 20 miles. It further provides that the lands granted specifically, lying in place, on any division of ten miles of road shall) the road shall be completed through and contermine us with the same. Several amendments, mostly of a verbal character, were reported by the committee.