Mr. RAMSEY. I move that the Senate post ponc all other business and proceed.with the consideration of Senate bill No. 221. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S.No.221) relating to lands granted to the State of Minnesota to aid in constructing railroads, was read a 2nd time by its title, and considered as in ComWhole. It provides that whenever 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 railroads, after the passage of the act making the Grant, and after the deliuite location of the line of road, and before the with drawal of the lands from sale at the properlocal land office, the 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 properroad, a quantity of land equal to that so sold or disposed of; and the lands so selected are to be substituted for those so sold or disposed of by the U.S., and may be disposed of by the State in all respects as if the substituted lands had been parcel of the original grant to the State. The 2nd section extends the time named in the act granting lands to the Territory of Minnesota to aid in the construction of a certain railroad, “from StPaul and from StAn thony, by the way of Minneapolis, to aconven: ient point of junction west of the Mississippi river, to the southern boundary of the lorritory, " approved March 3, 1857, for the construction and completion of the road for 7 years. The 3rd section provides that all the lands heretofore granted to the Territory and State of Minnesota to aid in the construction of railroads are to be certified to the State by the SecyInterior, from time to time, whenever any of the roads shall be definitely located, and are to be disposed of by the State in the manner and upon the conditions provided in the particular act making the grant; but when the original quantity ranted to aid in the construction of any roa has been increased, the quanti authorized to be sold from time to time is to be increased correspondingly; and onthe completion of any ten miles of road the State may sell 1/2 the quantityof lands which the State is authorized to dispose of on the comletion of 20 miles. The tiiurth section provides that the lands granted specifically, lym in place. on any division often miles of may sha lnot be disposed of until the road shall be completed through and cotermine us with it.