...Congress granted to that company ten alternate odd numbered sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad whenever it passes through any State,...sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free fro m preemption or other claims or rights. Congress could just as well have exceptée! also sections,...

...per mile on each side of said railroad whenever it pauses through any State, and whenever on iheline thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved,...otherwise appropriated, and free from pre-emption, or cither claims or rights, at the time the line of eaid road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof...

...each side of said road, whenever it passes through any State, and \vbeuever on the line thereof tbe United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from pre-emptiou or other claims or rights, at the time the line of unid road is designated by a plat thereof...

...mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the extent of ten sections per mile on each side of said road, whenever it passes through any State, and whenever on the line thereof tbe United States have full title, not reserved, gold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free...

...sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad wherever it passes through any state, and wherever on the line thereof the United States have full title,...claims or rights at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed and a plat thereof filed in the office of the commissioner of the general land office....

...odd immbered section of public land, not mineral, situated within certain prescribed limits, to which the United States have full title, " not reserved,...the time the line of said road is designated by a plat thereof, filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office." (14 Stat., 292 ;...

...(act of June 27, 1866, 14 Stat., 292), ie, the land so selected must be "not mineral" and to which " the United States have full title, not reserved, sold,...pre-emption or other claims or rights," at the time of filing the said map of definite location. These selections when approved by the Department, form...

...through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per inilo on each side of said railroad, whenever it passes through any State,...the line thereof, the United States have full title, uot reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from pre-emption, or other claims...

...the United States have lull title, " not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and tree from pre-emption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is designated by a plat thereof, tiled in the office of the Commissioner of the General Laud Office." (UStat., 292; 1«...

...through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of laud per mile on each side of said railroad whenever it passes through any State, and whenever, on the lino thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated,...