...adjacent public lands and which contained the provision that the aided transportation facility should be "a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or charge whatever, for any property of the United States, or persons in their service."...

...again observe the provisions of some of these earlier acts, to wit "and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the Government, free from toll or other charges upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States"...

...became a contract, "obligatory on both" * the carrier and Government. The carrier agreed it should "be and remain a public highway for the use of the...all toll or other charges upon the transportation of the property or troops of the United States; and the same shall be transported over said road at the...

...and bond-aided railroads contain several types of conditions. The most prevalent condition was that "the said railroad shall be and remain a public highway...the use of the Government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States."...

...two conditions: First, that certain railroad lines be built ; and Second, that such railroad lines be and remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any troops or property of the United States. In...

...on two conditions: First, that certain railroad lines be built; and Second, that such railroad lines be and remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any troops or property of the United States. In...

...question." In the first acts of Congress, it was specifically provided : The said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the Government, free of toll or other charges upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States....

...land grant railroad," and under the act of Congress above referred to "the suid railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or charge property and troops of the United States. First. Section 184 makes railroads public...

...railroads, and when the railroads took it to court, that was brought out. The law actually read [reading] : And the said railroad shall be and remain a public...the use of the Government of the United States, free from all toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States,...

...railroads, and when the railroads took it to court, that was brought out. The law actually, read [reading] : And the said railroad shall be and remain a public highway for the use of (he Government of the United States, free from all toll or other charge upon the transportation of...