...377). What those lands are, the third section of the act specifies. They are "every alternate sectiou of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers,...adopt through the Territories of the United States whenever on the hue thereof the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise...

...lands are, the third section of the act specifies. They are "every alternate section of public hmd, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount...adopt through the Territories of the United States whenever on the lme thereof the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise...

...the 2d day of July, 1864 (13 Stat., 3C7). "There is granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...railroad line, as said company may adopt, through tbe territories of the United States whenever on the line thereof the United States have full title,...

...be, and hereby is, granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, its successors and assigns . . . every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...sections per mile on each side of said railroad line . . . through the territories . . . and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said...

...about uve bund red dollars. The grant to the company was of every alternate section of public laud, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount...sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line through the territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections per mile on each side of said...

...transmission of the mails, troops and munitions of war and public stores over said line of railroad, every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, ten on each side of said railroad line. The directors of this Company proceeded with the work of construction...

...order withdrawing all the sections of land designated by odd numbers, in the said act referred to. to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad line through said territory, from sale, entry, and pre-emption, except by the plaintiff, as in the act provided....

...be, and hereby is, granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, its successors and assigns . . . every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to Hie amount of twenty alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad line . . . through the...

...its act of incorporation is every alternate section of public land not mineral (except coal and iron) designated by odd numbers to the amount of twenty...sections per mile on each side of said railroad line, through the Territories of the United States, and ten sections per mile on each side of said railroad...

...said alternate sections." It will be seen that this statute grants absolutely to the railroad company every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty sections per mile on each side of said railroad line; that this statute is not only a law, but a conveyance,...