...Office;" and the act further provided that " whenever prior to that time any of said sections or part of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved,...occupied by homestead settlers, or pre-empted, or These provisions are similar to those, of all the Pacific railroad granting act«, and have been authoritatively...

...reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, or pre-empted, •or otherwise disposed of, other lands should.be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the secretary of the interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than' 10 miles beyond...

...when the line of the road was definitely fixed, any of said sections, or parts of sections, should have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead...pre-empted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands should be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the secretary of the interior,...

...commissioner of the general land-office; and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or part of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved,...lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond...

...that, whenever, prior to the definite location of the line, "Ary of said sections or parts of lections, shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied...of, other lands shall be selected by said Company in lint thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior," etc., etc. Manifestly It was necessary...

...designated by я plat thereof, filed in the office of the Commissioner ol' the General Land Jffice; and whenever,- prior to said time, any of said sections...sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, oci-upicd bi/ hmnestcdd Mtller» or pre-empted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected...

...the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the commissiner of the general land office; and whenever, prior to...lieu thereof, under the direction of the secretary of the interior in alternate sections and designated by odd numbers, not more than than ten miles beyond...

...Commissioner of the General Land Office ; and when• ever prior to said time any of said sect ions or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold,...selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the directions of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers,...

...departmental regulation. The act is explicit that, whenever, prior to the definite location of the line, Any of said sections or parts of sections shall have...of, other lands shall be selected by said Company ¡v lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of Interior, etc., etc. Manifestly it was necessary...

...delinitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the commissioner of the general landoftlee; and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall 102 DECISIONS RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LANDS. have been grunted, sold, reserved, occupied hy homestead...