...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...line of railway, every alternate section of public laud, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile,...

...for, there is hereby granted to the said Texas Pariiic fiailroad Company, its successors and assigns, every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as such line may be adopted by said company, through the territories of the United States, and ten alternate...

...provided for, there is hereby granted to the said Texas Pacific R. Co., its successors and assigns, every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as such line may be adopted by said company, through the territories of the United States, and ten alternate...

...July, 1804 (13 US Stats., 365). Its third section granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company: Every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each Hide of said railroad line, as said company may adopt through the Territories of the United States,...

...railway, every alternate section of public land, not mineral, desiguated by odd nnmbers, to the amonnt of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side...of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, throngh the territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side...

...the construction of said railroad and telegraph line .... every alternate section of public lands, not mineral, designated by odd numbers 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...

...aiding in the construction of said railroad and telegraph line to the Pacific coast, and to Feuure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores, ov( r the route of said line of railway, every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated...

...grants to the company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of its railroad and telegraph line, "every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...twenty alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroail line," etc., " not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, etc., at the time...

...cases had elapsed. The grant to the company, by the third section of said act of July 2, 1864, was of Every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections por railo on each side of said railroad line, a« said company may adopt, through the Territorios of...

...granted PASSAGE OF BILL. 529 to the company to aid in the construction of the road and telegraph, " and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of...mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores thereon, every alternate section of public land designated by odd numbers, to the amount of five alternate...