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Payment for improvements, Red Rock Reservoir, Iowa. Hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on S. 931, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army to pay fair value for improvements located on the railroad rights-of-way owned by bona fide lessees or permittees. July 30, 1963.
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- Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1963.
- 1963
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 72-107 Offsite Railroad coal leases. Hearing, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session. April 26, 1966.
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- Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1966.
- 1966
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 73-1915 Offsite Railroads for the West - "Lands for the landless" - and "Virginia abstractions." Speech of Hon. L. D. Campbell in the House of Representatives, March 7, 1854, in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the bill from the Senate to aid the territory of Minnesota in constructing a railroad for military, postal and other purposes.
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- [Washington, Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1854]
- 1854
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro R-964 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad lands; 12,000,000 acres best farming, grazing and mineral lands in America, in the state of Nebraska and territories of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, for sale by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in tracts to suit purchasers and at low prices.
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- Omaha, Neb., 1872.
- 1872
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1872 82-1089 [Also on microfilm in *ZT-pv TE v. 11, no. 8] Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Railroads and land grant policy ; a study of government intervention / Lloyd J. Mercer.
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- New York : Academic Press, c1982.
- 1982
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 83-273 Offsite Hand-Buch zu den Union-Pacific Eisenbahn-Ländereien. 12,000,000 Acker des besten Acker- , Wiesen- und Mineralien- Bodens in Amerika in dem Staate Nebraska und den Territorien Colorado, Wyoming und Utah zum Verkaufe bei der Union-Pacific-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, in beliebigen Parcellen und zu billigen Preisen.
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- Omaha, Neb., Land-Bureau, Union-Pacific-Eisenbahn, 1872.
- 1872
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KF 1872 83-191 [Also on microfilm in *ZH-pv IAG v. 139, no. 6] Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Trujillo con x.
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- Tegucigalpa, D.C., Honduras : Procuraduría General de la República, [1979 or 1980]
- 1979
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSE 82-619 Offsite Southern land grants. Speech of Hon. Geo. W. Julian, of Ind., in the House of Representatives, January 22 and 28, 1868, on the Bill (H.R. no. 267) to declare forfeited to the United States, certain land grants to aid in the construction of railroads in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, and for other purposes.
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- [Washington, D.C., Printed at the Great Republic Office, 1868]
- 1868
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 385-J (Julian, G. W. Southern land grants) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The lands of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California : with general information on the resources of Southern California.
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- London : Southern Pacific Railroad, [1880?]
- 1880
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IXG (Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Lands of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Necessary fraud : progressive reform and Utah coal / Nancy J. Taniguchi.
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- Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
- 1996
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Statement of facts relative to the incorporation and organization of the Oregon Central Railroad Co., of Salem, Oregon, incorporated, April 22, A. D. 1867, and reasons why such company is entitled to the benefit of the land grant given by Congress in aid of a railroad and telegraph line from Portland, Oregon, southerly through the Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue River valleys, to the Central Pacific Road in California, passed July 25th 1866, and also why no other company has any legal or equitable right thereto.
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- Portland, Or., Carter and Himes, book and job printers, 1868.
- 1868
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Burlington west; a colonization history of the Burlington Railroad, by Richard C. Overton.
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- New York, Russell & Russell [1967, c1941]
- 1967-1941
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Grants of land, &c., by Congress : and charter of the St. Paul & Pacific and of the First Division of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Companies : general railroad laws of Minnesota and of the Territory of Dakota.
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- Saint Paul : Office of the Pioneer Press Co., 1879.
- 1879
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Railroads, lands, and politics; the taxation of the railroad land grants, 1864-1897. [by] Leslie E. Decker.
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- Providence, Brown University Press, c1964
- 1964
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Homes in Texas and how to get them : on the line of the International and Great Northern Railroad : the Lone Star route.
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- [St. Louis?] : The Railroad, [1875?]
- 1875
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TAH (International and Great Northern Railroad Company (1873-1911). Homes in Texas) Offsite Congressional grants of land in aid of railways / by John Bell Sanborn.
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- Madison, Wis. : [s.n.], 1899.
- 1899
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433009083464Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TE (Sanborn, J. B. Congressional grants of land in aid of railways) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TP (Sanborn, J. B. Congressional grants of land in aid of railways) Offsite The federal railway land subsidy policy of Canada, by James B. Hedges.
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- Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1934.
- 1934
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Hedges, J. B. Federal railway land subsidy policy of Canada) Offsite Railway land grants in Iowa. Letters from the secretary of the interior, the secretary of war, and the attorney general, transmitting, in response to a Senate resolution of August 19, 1913 ...
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- Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1916.
- 1916
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433010112302Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (United States. Dept. of the interior. Railway land grants in Iowa) Offsite Arid domain; the Santa Fe Railway and its western land grant.
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- Stanford [Calif.] Stanford University Press [1954]
- 1954
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Atchison) (Greever, W. S. Arid domain) 1954 Offsite A Compilation of the several acts of Congress, and of the Legislature of Wisconsin, applying to the Tomah and Lake St. Croix Railroad Company, etc., etc., etc.
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- New York : McCrea and Miller, 1865.
- 1865
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Tomah and Lake St. Croix Railroad Company) (United States. Statutes. Compilation of the several acts of Congress) Offsite The Illinois central railroad and its colonization work, by Paul Wallace Gates ...
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- Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1934.
- 1934
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPS (Illinois central railroad company) (Gates, P. W. Illinois central rail-road and its colonization work) 1934 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Building the Canadian West; the land and colonization policies of the Canadian Pacific Railway, by James B. Hedges ...
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- New York, The Macmillan Company, 1939.
- 1939
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPT (Hedges, J. B. Building the Canadian West) 1939 Offsite The railroad land grants. The Acts of Congress; their intendment. An examination of the question.
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- [New York? 1886]
- 1886
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TPR (Fitz, C. Railroad land grants) Offsite Hearings held before the Committee on the public lands of the House of representatives, February 3, 1910, on H. R. 18176, making an appropriation for the survey of public lands lying within the limits of land grants to provide for the forfeiture to the United States of unsurveyed land grants to railroads, and for other purposes.
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- Washington, Govt. print. off., 1910.
- 1910
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433023814860Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TEG (United States. Public Lands, Committee. Hearings before the Committee ... (Feb. 3, 1910, on H. R. 18176 )) Offsite [Hearings on] certain railroad land grants ... instructing the Attorney-General to institute certain suits and so forth. March 5, 12, 14, 24, 1908. S.R. no. 48.
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- Washington, Govt. Prtg. Off., 1908.
- 1908
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433023814787Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TEG (United States. Public Lands Committee. [Hearings on] certain railroad land grants) Offsite Argument of W.R. Laughlin, of Kansas, on House Resolution 1132; a bill repealing acts and parts of acts granting lands and certain privileges to railroad companies.
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- Washington City, Powell, Ginck & Co., 1872.
- 1872
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Railroads for the West, "Lands for the landless", and "Virginia abstractions" : speech of Hon. L.D. Campbell, of Ohio in the House of Representatives, March 7, 1854, in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the bill from the Senate to aid the Territory of Minnesota in constructing a railroad for military, postal, and other purposes.
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- [Washington : Congressional Globe Office, 1854?]
- 1854
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Railroad lands in Western Oregon : for sale at low rates and on liberal terms : extraordinary inducements to emigrants.
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- [San Francisco : European and Oregon Land Co.] 1872
- 1872
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Justice to the land states : speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Iowa land bill : in the Senate of the United States, January 27, 1852.
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- [Washington, D.C.? : s.n.], 1852
- 1852
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A guide to the Illinois central railroad lands. The Illinois central railroad company, offer for sale over 1,400,00 acres of selected prairie and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, suitable for farms, on long credits and low prices, situated on each side of their railroad, extending through the state of Illinois.
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- Chicago, Illinois Central Railroad Office, 1861.
- 1861
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Senate of the United States, report by Hon. Mr. Breese, from the Committee on Public Lands, with a bill granting to the State of Illinois a donation of land for completing the rail-road from Cairo to Chicago and Galena, thus uniting the upper and lower Mississippi with the chain of northern lakes.
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- [Washington, D.C.? : s.n.], 1848.
- 1848
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Guide to the Illinois Central Railroad lands [microform] : 800,000 acres of the best farming lands for sale by the Illinois Central Railroad Company in tracts to suit purchasers, and at low prices.
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- Chicago : Land Dept., Illinois Central Railroad Company, 1868.
- 1868
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZF-309 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TB p.v. 527 [Text] Offsite The Illinois central railroad company offers for sale over 2,000,000 acres selected farming and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, to suit purchasers, on long credits and at low rates of interest, situated on each side of their railroad, extending all the way from the extreme north to the south of the state of Illinois.
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- New York, J. W. Amerman, printer, 1856.
- 1856
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Land tenure problems in the Santa Fe railroad grant area, by Sanford A. Mosk.
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- Berkeley Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1944.
- 1944
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text TB p.v. 1610 no. 1-6 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Not available - Please for assistance.Special message of Governor Marshall in relation to the state railroad bonds. Transmitted to the Legislature of Minnesota February 1, 1869 ...
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- Saint Paul, Press Printing Co., 1869.
- 1869
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The Illinois central rail-road company offer for sale over 2,400,000 acres selected prairie, farm and wood lands, in tracts of any size, to suit purchasers, on long credits ... situated on each side of their rail-road extending all the way from the extreme north to the south of the state of Illinois.
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- New York, J.W. Amerman, printer, 1855.
- 1855
Review of the report made by the Committee of Investigation to the Legislature of Wisconsin relating to the land grant / by Byron Kilbourn.
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- Milwaukee : Printed at Starr's Job Office, 1858.
- 1858
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In the matter of the payment for surveys and the taxation of granted lands of the Central Pacific Railroad Co. ...
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- [Washington, D.C.?] Judd & Detweiler, Printers [1886?]
- 1886
A guide to the Illinois Central Railroad lands : the Illinois Central Railroad Company, offer for sale over 1,400,000 acres of selected prairie and wood lands, in tracts of forty acres and upwards, suitable for farms, on long credits and low prices, situated on each side of their railroad, extending through the state of Illinois.
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- Chicago : Illinois Central Railroad Office, 1860.
- 1860
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Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad lands. 12,000,000 acres, best farming and mineral lands in America, for sale by the Union Pacific Railroad Company, in tracts to suit purchasers and at low prices ...
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- Omaha, Neb., Land Department, Union Pacific Railroad Building, 1870.
- 1870
Rufus Story, against the New York Elevated Railroad Company : argument of David Dudley Field for the defendants.
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- New York : J. W. Pratt, 1877.
- 1877
Letter on the lands of the Illinois Central Railway Company / by James Caird.
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- London : [s.n.], 1859.
- 1859
Speech of Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, on the bill granting land to the state of Iowa in aid of constructing certain railroads. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 16, 1852.
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- Washington, Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1852.
- 1852
Documents of the Dubuque & Sioux City railroad company : together with extracts from the laws.
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- Dubuque, [Iowa] : Ballou & Winall, 1866.
- 1866
The law which determines the rights of the Northern Pacific R.R. Co., to its land grant. Opinion of G.G., general counsel for the Company. New York, Jan. 13, 1882.
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- New York, E.W. Sackett & Rankin, Printers, 1862.
- 1862
An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound on the Pacific coast by the northern route, by the name and title of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company [microform] / Approved July 2, 1864.
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- Boston : Printed by A. Mudge & Son, 1864.
- 1864
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