The clerk read The next amendment was in section 11, line 3, after the word “State” to strike out “may connect With the Kansas and Neosho Valley railroad at any pomt on the line of said road, ” and in lieu thereof to insert the followmg: which may have been heretofore or shali hereafter bgreersescognizedand subsidized by any act of the conoi the U.S. may connect unite and consolidate With this railroad company. after the rsiavmere, shall be located to the valley of the hcoslio upon just. fair and equitable terms. to be agreedupon between the parties. apd shall not be against the public interest or the interest of the U.S.: nor shall any1road authorisedto conncct as aforesaid charge the road so connecting a greater tariff permile for freight or passengersthan is charged for the same permile by its own road:.Am!providnlfurllier, That should the Leavenworth. Lawrence and Fort GibsonRailroad Compan.ortho Union Pacific Railroad Company, southern ranch. construct and completeits road to that point on the sputherubonudary of the State of Kansas where the line of saidKansas and hcosho Valley railroad shall crossthe same, before the said Kansas and heosho Valley Railroad Companyshall haveconstructedand completed its said rpiid to said point. thenand in that eventthe companyso 1streachingin completion the lflld point on the southern boundary of‘tbo State 9f Kansas shall be authorised. uponobtainin the written approvalof the POTUS to construct and operate its line of railroad from said yi‘oiiit to n, point at or near Preston. in the State of exas.witb agents of land accordingtothe provisions of this bill. at upon the further special condition. nevertheless. that said railroad companyshall have commencedin good faith the construction thereof before the said noses and Ncoslio valley Railroad Company shall have completed it: said railroad to said pomt: Am! provided furlher. That said other railroad company. so having commenced said work in flood faith shall continue to prosecute the same with sufficient onergy to insure the completion of the same within a reasonable time. subject to the approval of the POTUS: And provided further. That the right of way when not otherwise grantedjn this bill shall be obtained by said‘Kansas iind heosbo Valley Railroad Company. pr either of the oiher companiesnamed in this act. in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of an set to amendan actentitled "An actto aid in the oopstruetion of a railroad nud telegraphline from the Missouri rNer to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to tthaery Government the useof thesamefor postal.mili and other purposes."approved July 1.1862.