The Northern Pacific Land Grants: Hearings Before the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants, Parts 2-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - Railroad land grants |
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Page 875
... Superior Railroad , which involved an area in the State of Wisconsin of 370,378 and a fraction acres . That point 4 ... Superior , extending from Portage to Ashland , Wis . , and a broken line extending from Ashland to Bayfield , and ...
... Superior Railroad , which involved an area in the State of Wisconsin of 370,378 and a fraction acres . That point 4 ... Superior , extending from Portage to Ashland , Wis . , and a broken line extending from Ashland to Bayfield , and ...
Page 876
... Superior , but never built . I suppose - it would be a mere guess , but I should suppose it would be 115 or 120 miles . We say that for the distance from Superior to the point where the dotted broken line of the Portage , Winnebago & ...
... Superior , but never built . I suppose - it would be a mere guess , but I should suppose it would be 115 or 120 miles . We say that for the distance from Superior to the point where the dotted broken line of the Portage , Winnebago & ...
Page 877
... Superior grant between these points is but 113,791.70 acres , of which 82,792.33 acres had previously been granted in aid of the Superior Branch of the Omaha Railroad . In the tentative decision and other places throughout this record ...
... Superior grant between these points is but 113,791.70 acres , of which 82,792.33 acres had previously been granted in aid of the Superior Branch of the Omaha Railroad . In the tentative decision and other places throughout this record ...
Page 878
... Superior east , 113,000 acres ? Mr. KERR . Yes . Mr. WILLIAMS . While there is involved from Superior to Ashland , following the route around through Bayfield , 370,000 acres ? Mr. KERR . That is correct . Senator KENDRICK . Mr. Kerr ...
... Superior east , 113,000 acres ? Mr. KERR . Yes . Mr. WILLIAMS . While there is involved from Superior to Ashland , following the route around through Bayfield , 370,000 acres ? Mr. KERR . That is correct . Senator KENDRICK . Mr. Kerr ...
Page 879
... Superior between Superior and Ashland was not within the meaning of this language of the Northern Pacific charter upon the same general route , because one was a direct line and the other was a circuitous line . The second point which I ...
... Superior between Superior and Ashland was not within the meaning of this language of the Northern Pacific charter upon the same general route , because one was a direct line and the other was a circuitous line . The second point which I ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 1238 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...