...should be definitely fixed and a plat thereof filed, any of said, sections or parts of sections should have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers or pre-empted or otherwise disposed of, it granted other lands in lieu thereof to be selected by the company, under the direction of the Secretary...

...although the requirements of the law seem to be plain in this particular, the statute providing: " and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sectious shall have been granted . . . . other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof...

...amount, to be taken from alternate sections. The indemnity clause says: "And whenever, prior to s.-.ld time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall have been sold," etc. What sections? If no specific sections were Intended, who can say that any of "said sections"...

...question turns, are: Whenever, prior to said time, (ie, the definite location of the route of the road) any of said sections, or parts of sections, shall...settlers, or pre-empted, or otherwise disposed of, other land shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof. The language of the corresponding provision...

...question turns, are: Whenever, prior to said time, (ie, the definite location of the route of the road) any of said sections, or parts of sections, shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied T>y homestead settlers, or pre-empted, or otherwise disposed of, other laud shall be selected by said...

...amount of twenty alternate sections per mile .... and whenever .... any of said sections, or parte of sections, shall have been granted, sold, reserved,...shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof .... in alternate sections and designated by odd numbers within the indemnity limits fixed by said...

...road, and of course prior to the grant made, any of the lands which would otherwise fall withiu it have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead...settlers, or pre-empted or otherwise disposed of, other lauds are- to bo selected in lieu thereof under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. There...

...lands along said routes or lines as ' other lands ' in lieu of sections within twenty miles that had been granted, sold, ' reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, or preempted or otherwise disposed of ' by the United States. These maps were sent to the General Land Office by the Secretary of the Interior...

...rights, at the time the line of said road Is designated by a plat thereof filed in the office of the commissioner of the general land office; and whenever...lieu thereof, under the direction of the secretary of the interior, in alternate motions, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the...

...at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the commissioner of the general land office ; and whenever,...of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lien thereof, under the direction of the secretary of the interior, in alternate sections, and designated...