The Northern Pacific Land Grants: Hearings Before the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants, Հատոր 2-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 |
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acres act of Congress act of July amount bidder Cascade Mountains certified check CHAIRMAN claim Columbia River Commissioner committee construction corporation County decision decrees definite location deposit filed foreclosure forfeiture franchise Government homestead HUGHES indemnity lands indemnity limits Indians issued Item number joint resolution KERR Lake Superior land grant Land Office lands and rights lands hereby granted language map of definite matter McGowan miles mineral Minnesota Montana nonmineral North Dakota Northern Pacific grant Northern Pacific Railroad Northern Pacific Railway Oregon Pacific Railroad Company parcel patent place limits Portland and Tacoma preemption preemption law property and rights provision public lands Puget Sound purchaser question RAKER referred resolution of 1870 respect right of occupancy road Schedule Secretary selection Senator KENDRICK settlers sold Special Master statute Supreme Court survey territory thereof tion townships tract of land treaty of 1851 United Wallula WILLIAMS Wisconsin
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Էջ 1243 - State, and whenever, on the line thereof the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Էջ 1128 - States, to admit amongst them; and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents, and employes of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article...
Էջ 1238 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty...
Էջ 969 - The United States are as much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that term implies, as it would be if the repudiator had been a State or a municipality or a citizen.
Էջ 1238 - ... beginning at a point on Lake Superior, in the state of Minnesota or Wisconsin, thence westerly, by the most eligible railroad route, as shall be determined by said company, within the territory of the United States...
Էջ 1168 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Էջ 893 - State, to select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, from the lands of the United States nearest to the tiers of sections above specified, so much...
Էջ 1095 - States agrees that for every thirty children between said ages who can be induced or compelled to attend school, a house shall be provided and a teacher competent to teach the elementary branches of an English education shall be furnished, who will reside among said Indians, and faithfully discharge his or her duties as a teacher.
Էջ 882 - Brown, * * * (and others) * * * and all such other persons who shall or may be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby created and erected into a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name, style, and title of the " Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company...
Էջ 893 - Lake, between townships twenty-five and thirty-one, every alternate section of public land designated by odd numbers for ten sections in width on each side of said road...