...such questions. The act (13 Stat., 365, section 3) grants to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company— every alternate section of public land not mineral,...said railroad whenever it passes through any State, "to which" the United States have full title, uotrescrved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated,...

...the Columbia River, to a point at or near Portland, in the State of Oregon." The grant was, — • " Every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...said railroad, whenever it passes through any State, 1 " Puget Sound," construed to mean all waters connected with Straits of Fuca by Act of March I, 1869....

...to the company, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of the railroad and telegraph, etc., "every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...said railroad whenever it passes through any State." By § 6, the President of the United States was to cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in...

...stores, over the route of said line of railway and its branches, every alternate section of public laud, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount...ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side vf said railroad whenever it passes through any State, and whenever, jn the line thereof, the United...

...its successors and assignees, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of said railroad, * * * every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...through the territories of the United States, * * * and whenever on the line thereof the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise...

...such questions. The act (13 Stat., 365, section 3) grants to the Northern Pacific Kailroad Company — every alternate section of public land not mineral,...alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad Hue as said company may adopt, through the Territories of (lie United States, and ten alternate sections...

...Secretary of the Interior, Ex. Doc. 144, Forty-seventh Congress, first session, is — " Л grant of every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...twenty alternate sections per mile on each side of the line as adopted by the company through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate...

...of Congress of July 2, 1804, c. 217, 13 Stat 365. the Northern Pacific Railroad Company was granted every alternate section of public land, not mineral,...twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of its railroad lines through certain territory, as it may adopt, etc., free from pre-emption or other...

...Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Congress granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company ever}' alternate section of public land, " not mineral,"...twenty alternate sections per mile on each side of the railroad line, as the company might adopt, through the Territories of the United States, and ten...

...sections of public lands to the amount of twenty sections per mile on each side of said railroad line through the territories of the United States, and...sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad line through any State. By a joint resolution of both houses of Congress of March 1, 1869, the consent...