...Jones, 177 US there came under consideration the construction of the act of Congress of March 3, 1875, entitled "An act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands 240 -US Opinion of the Court. of the United States," c. 152, 18 Stat. 482. The case involved...

...reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 13. That rights of way through the public lands of the United States are hereby granted for pipe-line purposes for the transportation of oil or natural gas to any applicant possessing...

...reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 13. That rights of way through the public lands of the United States are hereby granted for pipe-line purposes for the transportation of oil or natural gas to any applicant possessing...

...railroad corporation under the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, entitled " An act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States," where such railroad has not been constructed and the period of five years next following the...

...defendant's predecessors in interest, with the provisions of the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States," approved March 3, 1875. That this defendant and its predecessors in interest in said right...

...be, and to have been at all times heretofore, subject to the provisions of a certain Act of Congress entitled "An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States," approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as fully, effectually, and to the...

...purpose indicated, and to their entire extent, under the act of congress approved March 3rd. 1875, granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States; that the company has selected no other grounds upon the public lands for similar purposes,...

...land in question under Act Cong. March 3, 1875, c. 152, 18 Stat. 482 (US Comp. St. 1901, p. 1568), "granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States." The first section of this act provides: "That the right of way through the public lands of...

...the Post Office Department. SEC. 6. That the provisions of section two of the act of March 3, 1875. entitled "An act granting to railroads the right of...are hereby extended and made applicable to rights of ways granted under this act and to railroad companies obtaining such rights of way.*• " Section 2...

...the pre-emption laws Is a "possessory claim," within the meaning of Act March 3, 1875 (18 Stat. 482), granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of tbe United States, and providing that the legislature of the proper territory might provide the method...