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United States of America

State of California

To this excellency Andrew Johnson President
and the Hon H McCulloch, the Secretary of
the Treasury of the United States.

The Central Pacific Rail Road
Company of California beg lease to report and
State; that said Company has under and insurance
of the provisions of the Act of Congress
entitled "The act to aid in the construction
of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri
Rivier to the Pacific Ocean and to Secure to
the Government the use of the same for postal
military and other purposes" approved July 1
1862 and the acts amendatory there of approved
July 2nd 1864 March 3rd 1865 and July 3rd 1886.
Fully completed and equipped at this date
Sevety nine miles of the railroad and
telegraph line provided for by said Acts and
the same is now in running order and read
for the service completed by said Acts
that said seventy nine miles of said rail-
road and telegraph line is constructed and
equipped in the manner required by said acts
and the same is fully supplied with all
necessary drains culverts [naducts?] crossings
sidings bridges turnouts watering-places depots