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• Aids, gifts, grants and donations to railroads including outline of development and successions in titles to railroads in Michigan (Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1919), by Michigan Railroad Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Compilation of federal and state legislation in reference to land grant railroads in the Upper Peninsula of the State of Michigan. (Free Press Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the lands in the state of Michigan, now for sale, comprised in the grant of over 600,000 acres, to the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw R. R. co. (K. Kittredge, printer, 1875), by Lansing & Saginaw Railroad Company Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument for and on behalf of the Flint & Pere Marquette R'y Co. before the Legislative Committees on Railroads as to the right of the state to impose local taxation on railroad lands. (s.n., 1900), by William Lewis Webber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to the lands in the state of Michigan now for sale, comprised in the grant of over 600,000 acres to the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw R.R. Co. (W.S. George & Co., 1883), by Lansing & Saginaw Railroad Company Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief for defendants (s.n., 1890), by Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, William Lewis Webber, and Michigan. Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the lands in the state of Michigan, now for sale, comprised in the grant of over one million acres to the Grand Rapids & Indiana railroad company. (M.H. Clark & co., 1874), by Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company. Land Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the taxation of railroad lands, made by the Committee on Railroads of the Senate of Michigan, February 28, 1873 (The Committee, 1873), by Michigan. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Railroads (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supreme Court of the United States : George Jerome, et al., appellants, vs. Thomas N. McCarter, appellee ; appeal from the Circuit Court of the U. S. for the eastern district of Michigan : brief for McCarter, appellee. (1876) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forfeited lands in the state of Michigan : Mr. Henley, from the Committee on the Public Lands, submitted the following report : to accompany bill H. R.180. (House of Representatives, 1884), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Oregon and California land grants : hearings before the Committee on Public Lands, House of Representatives, 64th Congress, 1st session. (Govt. Print. Off., 1916), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Carter and Himes, book and job printers, 1868), by Oregon Central Railroad Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oregon and California land grant : hearings before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, on H.R. 22002, concerning the Oregon and California land grant. April 2 and May 2, 6, 8, and 25, 1912. (G.P.O., 1912), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroads through the Indian territory. (G.P.O., 1870), by United States Department of the Interior (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illinois central railroad company offers for sale over 1,500,000 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. (Illinois central rail road office, 1857), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illinois central railroad company offers for sale over 2,000,000 acres selected farming and wood lands (J. W. Amerman, printer, 1856), by Illinois central railroad co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument before the Committee on Public Lands, of the House of Representatives, in the case of the Southern Pacific Railway, of California, on January 26, 1886. (s.n., 1886), by Joseph E. McDonald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The right to tax unpatented railroad lands, and government lands for which land office receipts have been issued (Govt. print. off., 1891), by California Office of the Attorney General and William Henry Harrison Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official memorandum respecting the position and prospects of the Canadian Pacific Railway (s.n., 1881), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company and George Stephen Mount Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official memorandum ([s.n.], 1882), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company and George Stephen Mount Stephen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Between the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake & Saskatchewan Railroad & Steamboat Company, the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake & Saskatchewan Land Company (Limited), the Honourable Donald MacInnes, Olser & Hammond, and the Honourable William Pugsley, petitioners ; and Her Majesty the Queen, repondent petition to right. (s.n.], 1900), by Long Lake & Saskatchewan Railroad & Steamboat Company Qu'Appelle, William Pugsley, Donald MacInnes, Long Lake & Saskatchewan Land Company Qu'Appelle, Osler & Hammond (Firm), and Osler McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Returns and addresses to the House of Commons relative to the surveys and appropriations of lands for the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the province [s] of Manitoba, North-West Territory and British Columbia (s.n.], 1881), by Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northwest coast including Oregon, Washington and Idaho a series of articles upon the N.P.R.R. in its relations to the basins of the Columbia and of Puget's Sound (s.n.], 1878), by G. H. Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Queen's Wharf depot lands the Corporation of Toronto and the Northern Railway Co. (s.n., 1872), by Frederic William Cumberland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land grant twenty five million acres in Manitoba and the North West, the future wheat field of the continent : information for intending settlers. (s.n., 1882), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farming and ranching in the Canadian North-West general account of Manitoba and the North West Territories, superior advantages for agricultural settlers, unrivalled ranching districts, free grants and cheap lands, and how to get them, climate and health, how to go, and what to do at the start, testimony of actual settlers. (s.n., 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official guide book to the Canadian Pacific Railway lands in Manitoba and part of the N.W. Territory compiled from manual of survey and C.P.R. land examinations reports. (s.n.], 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official guide book to the Canadian Pacific Railway lands in Manitoba and part of the N.W. Territory compiled from manual of survey and C.P.R. land examinations reports. (s.n.], 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern Alberta including the [Edm]onton, [R]ed Deer, Buffalo Lake, Beaver Lake and other districts. (s.n., 1894), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Hon. Edward Blake, M.P., on the electoral franchise Friday, May 9th, 1890. (B. Chamberlin, 1890), by Edward Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from debates in Dominion Parliament and British Columbia Legislative Council in 1871 on the railway land clause of the terms of union of British Columbia with Canada (MacLean, Roger, 1880), by Amor DeCosmos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from debates in Dominion Parliament and British Columbia Legislative Council in 1871 on the railway land clause of the terms of union of British Columbia with Canada (MacLean, Roger, 1880), by Amor DeCosmos (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lands of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California : with general information on the resources of the country through which the railroad takes its way. ([s.n.], 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Richard Brodhead, of Pa. : in the Senate of the United States, March 15, 1852, on the public lands--graduation and reduction of the price thereof, preferable to grants of alternate sections to aid in the construction of railroads--grants to actual settlers, cession to the states, &c., briefly considered. (s.n., 1852), by Richard Brodhead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter to Hon. Glenni W. Scofield, M.C., in relation to lands certified to and claimed by land-grant corporations, in excess of their grants. (s.n.], 1872), by John S. Hauke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Goat Island grant : proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce, Board of Supervisors, and the citizens in mass meeting on the subject of the grant of Goat Island to the Central Pacific R.R. Co. (Alta California Printing House, 1872), by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors and San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land-grant railroads and their relation to government transportation : a lecture before the officers of the Quartermaster Reserve Corps at Washington, D.C., June 26, 1917 (G.P.O., 1917), by Robert E. Shannon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad lands in California and Nevada. (Central Pacific Railroad Company], 1872), by Central Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Map of part of Manitoba and the North West Territories of Canada : shewing the lines and land grant of the Canadian Pacific Railway ([Montréal, Québec] : [Canadian Pacific Railway], 1890., 1890), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Main line land grant lands patented to the company in the province of Alberta (The Company, 1919), by Canadian Pacific Railway Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The E. & N. and the land grant (s.n., 1898), by L. H. Fullagar (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oregon and California land grant : hearings before the Committee on the Public Lands, House of Representatives, on H.R. 22002, concerning the Oregon and California land grant. April 2 and May 2, 6, 8, and 25, 1912. (G.P.O., 1912), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oregon and California land grant. Remarks of Hon. L. E. Bean ... (State printing department, 1917), by Louis E. Bean (page images at HathiTrust)
• The right to tax unpatented railroad lands, and government lands for which land office receipts have been issued (Govt. print. off., 1891), by California Office of the Attorney General and William Henry Harrison Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The federal land grants of the Central Pacific railroad (1922), by Elbert A. Kincaid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minority report of the Committee on Public Lands on the California and Oregon and the Oregon and California Railroad Land Grants : with protest of Sacramento Board of Trade, etc., etc, with extracts from the press of California and Oregon. (Judd & Detweiler, 1884), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands and Sacramento Board of Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lands of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, with general information on the resources of Southern California. ([San Francisco, 1883), by Jerome Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oregon and California railroad grant lands: hearing before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, second session, on S. 2225, a bill relating to the administrative jurisdiction of certain public lands in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes, May 4, 1954. (U.S. G.P.O., 1954), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lands granted to and withdrawn for the benefit of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California (The Company, 1887), by Henry Beard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Building the Canadian West; the land and colonization policies of the Canadian Pacific railway (The Macmillan company, 1939), by James Blaine Hedges (page images at HathiTrust)

• Grant of land to the state of Illinois. Speech of Hon. J.A. McClernand, of Illinois, in the House of representatives, August 12, 1848, on the bill to grant to the state of Illinois alternate sections of the public land for the completion of certain railroads in that state. ([n.p., 1848), by John A. McClernand (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Illinois Central Railroad Office, 1859), by Illinois Central Railroad Company and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illinois Central Rail-Road 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 rail-road, extending all the way from the extreme north to the south of the state of Illinois. (John W. Amerman, printer, 1856), by Illinois Central Railroad Company and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter on the lands of the Illinois Central Railway Company ([s.n.], 1859), by James Caird (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (J.W. Amerman, printer, 1855), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Illinois Central Railroad Company offers for sale over 1,500,000 acres selected farming and wood lands (G. C. Rand & Avery, Printers, 1857), by Illinois Central Railroad Company and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Illinois central railroad office, 1861), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the Illinois Central Railroad lands : the Illinois Central Railroad Company, offer for sale over 1,4000,000 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. (The Office, 1860), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Senate of the United States, December 19, 1848, submitted and ordered to be printed, Mr. Breese made the following report to accompany bill S. No. 355 : the Committee on Public Lands ... ask leave to report ... (Publisher not identified], 1848), by Sidney Breese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sectional maps showing the location of over 2,500,000 acres selected farming and wood lands in the state of Illinois belonging to and offered for sale by the Illinois central railroad company, with the line of its railroad and all other intersecting railroads correctly laid down ... (Lithographic printers to the city, 1857), by Illinois Central Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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