...one was from Porc Marquette to Flint. The grant was of every alternate section of land designa teil by odd numbers for six sections in width on each side of each of said railroads. And it was provided that if, when the line's of the roads were definitely fixed,...

...I»wa. to aid in the construction of certain railroads, every alternate section of land •><ignated by odd numbers for six sections in width on each side of each of the sev•nl mads. The granting clause of the act contained, however, the following proviso:...

...River, near the mouth of Platte River; from the city of Davenport, via Iowa City and Fort Des Mpines to Council Bluffs; from Lyons City northwesterly to...quantity equal thereto, in alternate sections, or parts of sections, within fifteen miles of the lines so located. The lands remaining to the United...

...running as nearly as practicable to the forty-second parallel ; across the State of Iowa to the Misouri River, from the City of Dubuque to a point on the...by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each Bide of said roads. But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes...

...a point on the Missouri River, near Sioux City, with a branch from the mouth of the Tete dcs Morta, to the nearest point on said road, to be completed...six sections in width on each side of said roads. But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads are...

...a branch via Saint Cloud and Crow Wing to the navigable waters of the Red Hiver of the North * * » every alternate section of land designated by odd...for six sections in width on each side of said roads and branches." It provided that "in caso it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines...

...Superior and to Bayfield ; and from Fond du Lac, on Lake Winnebago, northerly to the state line, ever)' alternate section of land designated by odd numbers,...six sections in width on each side of said roads, respectively; the land to be applied exclusively in the construction of said roads, and to no other...

...or near Trav< rse Bay ; also from Grand Haven and Pere Marquette to Flint, and thence to Port Huron, ates each of said roatls ; but in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the Grant in lieu...

...pre-empted previous to the original grant of March 3, 1857 ? 1. The grant of March 3, 1857, was a grant of " every alternate section of land, designated by odd...numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads and branches." This grant was therefore a grant of lands in place. It was a grant...

...valley of Root River, to a point of junction with the last-mentioned road, east of range seventeen, every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on Grantinlieuof each side of each of said roads and branches; but in case it shall aplamls preempted...