 | Henry A. Gaston - Commercial law - 1880 - 336 pages
...public convenience in executing the provisions of this Act. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted: That the right of way for the construction of highways...lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted: That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to tlie use of... | |
 | Dennis Kingsley Sickels - Mining law - 1881 - 704 pages
...public convenience in executing the provisions of this act. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, that the right of way for the construction of highways...lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted. SEC. 9. And be it furIher enacted, that whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1088 pages
...it had the right of way over the premises, under section 2477, US Kev. St., which reads as follows: "The right of way for the construction of highways...not reserved for public, uses is hereby granted." This act was passed in 1866. We are strongly of opinion that the term "highways," as here used, never... | |
 | George W. Spaulding - Land tenure - 1884 - 574 pages
...common to both. 1 Stat 468; 2 Id. 235; RS 2476. § 488. Rvjhl of Way for Highways otvr Public Lands. — The right of way for the construction of highways...lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted. • 14 Stat. 253; RS 2477; Railway Co. v. Gordon, SC Mich., Oct. Term, 1879; 7 Copp's LO 158. § 489.... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1885 - 768 pages
...road. The section of said act which they claim grants them this riirht reads as follows: SEC. 8. " That the right of way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses, ia hereby granted." The first question then presented for oar consideration is, were the lands upon... | |
 | California State Mining Bureau - Geology - 1886 - 398 pages
...public convenience in executing the provisions of this Act. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the right of way for the construction of highways...lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1888 - 1002 pages
...& MRR Co., I McCr. CC 302 ; sc, 3 Fed. Rep. 702. By Revised Statutes of United States, sect. 2477, the right of way for the construction of " highways " over public lands not preserved for public uses, is granted. It has been /,-.•/,/ that a railroad is a " highway "within... | |
 | Henry Norris Copp - Land tenure - 1890 - 726 pages
...belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common to both. SEC. 2477. The right of way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public use, is hereby granted. SEC. 2478. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction... | |
 | Montana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 736 pages
...Statutes (Act July 26, 1866. Chap. 262, sec. 8. 14 Stats. 253 [US Comp. Stats. 1901, p. 1567]), which. provides: "The right of way for the construction of...not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted." This Act was approved July 26, 1866. It is contended by the city that the public accepted this grant... | |
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That the right of way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted. 
