| George P.Sanger - 1855 - 782 pages
...completed as soon as the main road is completed to that point,— there is granted to the State of Iowa every alternate section of land, designated by odd...six sections in width on each side of said roads, but in no case to be farther than fifteen miles from the line of said roads respectively. If it shall... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1857 - 436 pages
...junction with tho last-mentioned road cast of rango 17, there is granted to tho Territory of Minnesota every alternate section of land, designated by odd...six sections in width on each side of said roads, but in no case to bo farther than fifteen miles from tho lino of said roads respectively. If it shall... | |
| United States. Attorney-General - Administrative law - 1858 - 600 pages
...is hereby granted to the State of Iowa, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of railroads, every 'alternate section of land, designated by odd...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... | |
| James S. Ritchie - Superior, Lake - 1858 - 360 pages
...or near Traverse Bay ; also from Grand Haven and Pere Marquette to Flint, and thence to Port Huron, every alternate section of land, designated by odd...numbers, for six sections in width, on each side of each of said roads.' "The Legislature of Michigan, which had the disposal of the lands, distributed... | |
| Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives - Florida - 1859 - 280 pages
...Mexico; and also a Railroad from Pensacola to the State line of Alabama, in the direction of Montgomery, every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads and branch." The State of Florida is the grantee in the act named. The title deed,... | |
| 1860 - 782 pages
...on said main line, running as near as practicable to the forty-second parallel across the said State to the Missouri River, from the city of Dubuque to...numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads. But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes... | |
| Wisconsin. Legislature. Assembly - Law - 1860 - 1322 pages
...Superior, and to Bayfield, and also, from Fond du Lac, on Lake YVinnebago, northerly to the State line, every alternate section of land designated by odd...for six sections in width on each side of said roads respectively," &,c. The second provision of section one, reads thus : " That the lands hereby granted,... | |
| Minnesota. Bureau of Statistics - Agriculture - 1860 - 188 pages
...legislature, for the purpose of aiding hi the construction of the lines of railroad described in the Act, every alternate section of land designated by odd...numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said railroad lines, with the right of making up the full complement of 3,840 acres per mile, by appropriating... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1860 - 840 pages
...construction of a railroad, the locality of which was described, every alternate section of !Itin!, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said road. But it deems that Congress was informed of the aforesaid act of the territorial legislature in... | |
| William Wharton Lester - Land tenure - 1860 - 786 pages
...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 ou each side of each of said roads and branches; but in case it shall appoar that the United States... | |
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