...thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, imd free from pre-emption or other claims or rights, at the time the lino of said road is designated by a plat thereof, filed in the office of the commissioner of the general...

...railroad whenever it passes through any State, and whenever on the line thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise...definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the oflice of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The history of the occupancy of lands by the...

...the odd-numbered alternate sections of which the United States had at the time of definite location " full title, not reserved, sold, granted or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption orother claims or rights," provided that whenever prior to such definite location any sections or parts...

...lands shall not be patented because reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, or because not free from preemption or other claims or rights at the time the line of the road is definitely fixed, it must also decide whether lands are excepted because they are mineral...

...raiir»ad whenever it passes through any State, and whenever on the line thereof the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise...time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and n plat thereof filed in the ollice of the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and whenever, prior...

...have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from pre-empt ion or other claims or rights at the time the line of...definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of tinCommissioner of the General Land Office; and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections...

...from its operation, among other things, lands to which pre-emption or homestead claims were attached "at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed." And the defendant contends that he is within the exception. The basis for this contention is, that he gave...

...upon, the limitation on the granting clause, which makes it also requisite that 'the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise...the time the line of said road Is definitely fixed.' They all recognize the well-established rule that the grantee under a railroad land grant acquires,...

...benefit of the defendant. The grant to the plaintiff was only of lands to which the United States had 'full title, not reserved, sold, granted or otherwise...the time the line of said road is definitely fixed. The withdrawal by the Secretary in aid of the grant to the State of Wisconsin was valid and operated...

...under which the company lays claim to this land, grants only the lands to which the United States has full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise...or other claims or rights at the time the line of the road was definitely fixed, and provides further that whenever, prior to that time, any of the odd-numbered...