 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 726 pages
...with the measure in a corresponding spirit of liberality, as the grant, which awards to the work "an amount of five alternate sections per mile on each side of said road," thus concedes a belt of 6,400 acres for every mile of its length, embracing some fifteen and... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 696 pages
...Largo, 489. Statement of the case. the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores thereon, every alternate section of public land . . . designated...on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof and within the limit of ten miles on said road, not sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed of by the... | |
 | Silas Seymour - Platte River Valley (Neb.) - 1867 - 144 pages
...Government grants " every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of ten alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad on the line thereof, and within the limits of twenty miles on each side of said road, not sold, reserved, or otherwise set... | |
 | Silas Seymour - Platte River Valley (Neb.) - 1867 - 144 pages
...Government grants " every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of ten alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad on the line thereof, and within the limits of twenty miles on each side of said road, not sold, reserved, or otherwise set... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1868 - 740 pages
...Indian titles interfering, to be extinguished as soon as may be.— 3. There is granted to the company every alternate section of public land, designated...sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the Une thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side, not sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1868 - 740 pages
...be,— 3. There Is granted to the company every alternate section of j-ubllc Und, designated by cub', numbers, to the amount of five alternate sections...on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side, not sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed of by the... | |
 | Railroads - 1873 - 954 pages
...indebtedness. Lands. — Every alternate section of public land designated by odd numbers to the amount of ten alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof and within the limit of twenty miles on each side of said railroad, not Bold, reserved or otherwise... | |
 | Railroads - 1876 - 1104 pages
...indebtedness. Lands. — Every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers to li* amount of 10 alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad, on the line \ii> : and within the limit of 20 miles on each side of said railroad, not sold, reserved or oihsrr.^... | |
 | Effingham Howard Nichols - Pacific railroads - 1869 - 46 pages
...patents for " every alternate section of public land designated by " odd numbers, to the amount of ten alternate sections per mile "on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof and within the "limits of twenty miles of each side of said road, not sold, " reserved, or otherwise... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1870 - 142 pages
...the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores thereon, every alternate section of public land designated...on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side of said road, not sold, reserved, or otherwise disposed... | |
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... every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of five alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side of said road... 
