Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States: With a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah. With MapsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1879 - Всего страниц: 195 |
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Стр. 173 - ... or that the right of pre-emption has attached to the same, then it shall be lawful for any agent or agents to be appointed by the governor of said State to select...
Стр. 174 - ... if any of said roads are not completed within ten years, no further sale shall be made and the lands unsold shall revert to the United States.
Стр. 178 - Mexico, every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers, for ten sections in width on each side of said road...
Стр. 177 - ... every alternate section of public land, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of five alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side of said road...
Стр. 173 - State to comply with the conditions of the grant, it was "bound to pay to the United States the amount which may be received upon the sale of any part of said lands by said State". The title of the purchasers was to be valid, but the tracts not sold were to revert and revest in the United States. Section 6 said that the mails were to be transported at all times at such price as Congress might direct.
Стр. 172 - Illinois for the construction of a railroad from the southern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan canal to a point at or near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, with a branch of the same to Chicago on Lake Michigan, and another via the town of Galena in said State, to Dubuque in the State of Iowa...
Стр. 181 - The said river, when improved, and the s,aid canal, when finished, shall be, and forever remain, a public highway for the use of the Government, free from any toll or other charge whatever for the transportation of the mails, or for any property of the United States...
Стр. 174 - ... may be sold ; and when the Governor of said State shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior, that any twenty continuous, miles of any of said roads is completed...
Стр. 169 - Territory, one equal moiety, in alternate sections, of the .public, lands (remaining unsold and not otherwise disposed of, incumbered or appropriated), in a strip five miles in width on each side of said river...
Стр. 174 - ... every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for six sections in width on each side of each of said roads.