...July 25, 1866 (14 Stat. 239), which specifically describes the lands granted by said act : ******* every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of 20 alternate sections per mile (10 on each sifle) of said railroad line ; and when any of said alternate...

...July 25, 1866 (14 Stat. 239), which specifically describes the lands granted by said act : ******* every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of 20 alternate sections per mile (10 on each sifle) of said railroad line ; and when any of said alternate...

...transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war and public stores over the line of said railroad, every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile (ten on each side) of said railroad line; and when any of said alternate sections, or parts of sections,...

...present inquiry. By the 3d section of the act Congress granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company "every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...through the territories of the United States, and ten altérnate sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad whenever it passes through any state,...

...mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each "Ide of said railroad line, as said company may adopt through...alternate sections of land per mile on each side of sold railroad whenever It passes through any state, and whenever, on the line thereof, the United States...

...the Legislature of said State should thereafter designate, to aid in the construction of its road, "every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile," not otherwise disposed of by the United States, with the right to select from the odd sections, within...

...another company. The grant was in present terms, — "there be, and hereby is, granted," — and was of "every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers" within designated limits on each side of the line. With this was coupled a provision that "when any...

...of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores, over the route of said line of railway, every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...adopt, through the territories of the United States, end ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad whenever it passes through...

...extinguish the Indian titles to all lands falling under the operation of the act. Section 3 granted — every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of 20 alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, through...

...the Indian titles to all lands fall ing under the operation of the act. Sect ion 3 granted — erery alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of 20 alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, through...