...hereby is, granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific Coast, and to secure the safe and Fjieedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions...

...subscribe and become responsible for the sum of one hundred thousand dollars in stock in the said railroad company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad, in the same manner and upon the same terms that the said city took stock in the Sangamon and Alton,...

...of way and grants hereinafter made. SBC. 3. And be it farther enacted. That tin™ be, and n herhy granted to the said company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad and the telegraph line, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions...

...the Treasury. The act granted to the company the right of way through the public lands, and "for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad'...transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and the public stores thereon," made to it an extensive grant of lands, and provided for the issuing of...

...and acquired in the donation to the [road] named in this bill. 8 its successors and assigns, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific coast, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions...

...of way and grants hereinafter made." Section 3 provides " That there be, and is hereby, granted to said company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction...of said railroad and telegraph line, and to secure tho safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores thereon,...

...hereby is, granted to the " Northern Pacific Railroad Company," its successors and assigns, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific coast, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions...

...the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and gave to said company, or to certain cs tor the benefit of said company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad, all the lands donated to the State of Illinois i>y virtue of an act of the Congress of the United States,...

...for the purpose and on the trust expressly declared in the • • grant in these words, " for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad...troops, munitions of war, and public stores thereon," and "to promote the public interest and welfare by the construction of said railroad and telegraph...

...expressly declared in th jrant in these words, " for the purpose of aiding in the construction of «id railroad and telegraph line, and to secure the safe...mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores ¡hereon," and " to promote the public interest and welfare by the contraction of said railroad and...