...proposed legislation grows out of a grant of land made to the Territory of Iowa in the year 1846 to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines River. The language of this grant was such that it gave rise to conflicting decisions on the part of the Government...

...Lands, to which was referred the bill (No. 106) granting certain lands to the Territory of Iowa to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines river, in said Territory, reported an amendatory bill, accompanied by a report in writing. Ordered, That the...

...date of importation. Aug. 8, 1846. No. 60. An Act granting certain lands to the Territory of Iowa to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines river in said Territory. One equal moiety, in alternate sections, of the lands remaining unsold in a strip...

...August 8, 1846. ' • 'V- ~ ~ CHAP. 103.— AN ACT granting certain lands lo the Territory of Jowa, to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines river, in said Territory. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United...

...in an act of congress, approved August 8th, 1846. granting certain lands to the territory of Iowa to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines river, in said territory, be, and the same is, hereby accepted for the purposes specified in said act: provided,...

...and introduced a bill (No. 675) to amend "An act granting certain lands to the Territory of Iowa, to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines river, in said Territory;" which bill was read a first and second time, and referred to the Committee on Public...

...think it was, Congress made a grant of land, in alternate sections, to the then Territory of Iowa, for the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines river from its mouth to what is called the Raccoon fork. When I came into office as Attorney General, the question as to its...

...disposing of the g,ant of lands made by an act of Congress granting lands to the Tcnitory of Iowa to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines River, Reported the same back to the House with sundry amendments^, and as amended, recommended its pass-age....

...disposing ot the grant of lands made by an act of Congress, granting lands to the territory ot Iowa, to aid in the Improvement of the Navigation of the Des Moines River. Senate File No. 190, ''Joint Resolution allowing the transfer of Books from among those in the Library...

...By an act of Congress, approved August 8, 1846, a grant of lands was made to the State of Iowa for the improvement of the navigation of the Des Moines river, from its mouth to the Kaccoon Fork. This grant, for more than two years, was regarded on all hands as confined to the line...