...amount of land granted for the benefit of this Root River Valley Railroad was every alternate section designated by odd numbers for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads and branches. By a series of acts passed at various times by the Minnesota legislature,...

...designated by odd iniinlK-rs. for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads and branch. Hut in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said roads and branch are di'finilcly fixed, sold any sections, or any parts thereof,...

...designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said road within said Territory; but in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the line of said road is definitely fixed by the authority aforesaid, sold any section or any part thereof granted...

...Pensacola, and from Fernandina to Tampa with an extension to Cedar Keys, "every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each said roads and branch." From this source these railroads received millions of acres lying within...

...railroad between different points in the Territory. These lands were to consist of the alternate sections, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width, on each side of the several lines of road, and were to be selected within fifteen miles therefrom. The act declared...

...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. But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines...

...construction. Congress had passed an act in 1857 granting to the state of Michigan "every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of said roads," the roads referred to being several routes proposed by the act of congress in question, one...

...grant in aid of the Iowa Central Air-Line Railroad, the company was granted every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width, on each side of said road as definitely located. If any of said lands had been disposed of by the general government there was...

...named (the Leavenworth road) enters the Neosho valley. This grant contains the following limitations: "But in case It shall appear that the United States have, when the lines or routes of said road and branches are definitely fixed, sold any section or any part thereof,...

...the State line of Alabama, in the directoin of Montgomery, every alternate section of land deeignated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads and branch. But in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the lines...