...district number twenty-seven (27), in Dakota county, to- wit ; the ea^t halt of section three (3), and the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section two (2), all in township one hundred and fourteen (114), range seventeen (17), be and the same is hereby...

...December 16, 1879. SIR: Under the fifth section of the act of July 17, 1854 (10 Statutes, p. 306), the south half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section 36 in township 5 north, of range 1 west, Washington Territory, were selected by the register and receiver...

...the M., H. & 0. KR less than a mile long, and passing close by the W'etmore. THE BEAUFORT embraces the south half of the north-west quarter and the north half of the south-west quarter of section 22, town 48, range 31, and is the most westerly opening on the upper hematite range, if we except the...

...of Congress of lb62 and 186i, granting lands in aid of a railroad and telegraph line, a patent for the south half of the northwest quarter 'and the north half of the southwest quarter of section 33, and the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and the north half of the northwest quarter...

...of all the facts above stated as having occurred before that time, purchased and became the owner of the south half of the north-west quarter, and the north half of the south-west quarter, of said section ten, and has since about that date resided on said land, and was, during most of the year...

...settlers and appearing on the maps as Spirit mound. It is situated in Clay County, South Dakota, on the south half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section 14, town 93, range 52. In dimensions it is about 1000 feet long and 350 feet wide at the base, and...

...it is alleged, in effect, that the plaintiff, on and prior to May 1, 1888, was the owner of the east half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section 35, township 10 north, of range 12, in Cass County; that on said data, in a suit pending in the district...

...half of the northeast quarter and the north half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-three, and the south half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-four, township twenty-seven north, range fourteen west of the Indian meridian, excepting one...

...September 23, 1892. Josephine Gabiou on December 1, 1869, received a patent from tbe United States for the south half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section thirty-four, (3-t,) in T. 48, R. 16, in Carlton county. She then married Daniel Wright, and afterwards...

...north one-half of the northwest quarter of section sixteen, etc." But the property of the testator was the south half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of the section given. It was attempted to show that it was seventy acres off the north half of the southwest...