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" State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or... "
Decisions of the Comptroller of the Treasury - Page 216
by United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - 1905
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The Northern Pacific Land Grants: Hearings Before the Joint ..., Parts 2-3

United States. Congress. Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Northern Pacific Railroad Land Grants - Railroad land grants - 1925 - 902 pages
...own vehicles, and that when Congress in granting lands in aid of such a road declared that the same shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, it only means that the Government shall have the right to use the roud but not that...
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The Federal Reporter, Volume 55

Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1052 pages
...as a wagon road, and in such other special manner as the state of Oregon may prescribe, and that it shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the government of the United States." The act further provided that the legislature of Oregon might dispose of the lands...
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The Federal Reporter, Volume 10

Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 954 pages
...public highways for the use of the government of the United States free of all toll or other charges upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, that the lands hereby grunted shall be disposed of by said state...
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United States Supreme Court Reports, Volume 51; Volumes 203-206

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1242 pages
...point' at or near the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, with branches, etc., which should remain a public highway for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charges upon the transportation of any [84O]* property or troops of the United States,...
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Improvement of Rivers and Harbors: Hearings Before the Committee ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - Harbors - 1926 - 386 pages
...it is hereby further enacted and declared, That the said canal, when completed, shall be and forever remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or other charge whatever for any property of the United States or persons in their service...
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The State Control of Public Utilites in the Decade of the Fifties

Eva Swantner - 1926 - 184 pages
...brought out in the conditions imposed on the United States land grant railroads whan it is provided that "the said railroad shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the United States , free from all toll or other charge upon the transportation of any 2 property or troops...
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Relief for Land-grant Railroad. Hearing ... on H.R. 10162 ... Mar. 31, 1928

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1928 - 52 pages
...of compensation, not to exceed the rates paid by private parties for the same kind of service. And said railroad shall be and remain a public highway...the use of the Government of the United States, free of all tolls or other charges upon the transportation of the property or troops of the United States;...
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Administrative Report of the Directors of Departments Under the ..., Volume 9

Illinois - Administrative agencies - 1928 - 1010 pages
...purpose aforesaid, and no other: Provided, that the said canal, when completed, shall be and forever remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or other charge whatever, for any property of the United States, or persons in their service...
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Interstate Commerce Acts Annotated, Volume 4

United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - Interstate commerce - 1930 - 942 pages
...railroad which under land-grant acts was aided in its construction by a grant of land on condition that said railroad shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the United States, and for which adjustment of compensation is required in accordance with decisions of...
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Decisions of the Department of the Interior in Appealed Pension ..., Volume 22

United States. Department of the Interior - Bounties, Military - 1930 - 680 pages
...of railroads contain a clause that the roads thus aided should be " free from toll and other charges upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States," which was construed by the Supreme Court as conferring the free use only of the roadbed as a highway;...
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