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• The Charter and amendments. The general mortgage on railroad and land grant, and copy of first mortgage bond. ([Philadelphia, 1870), by Northern Pacific Railroad Company and Jay Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Congressional grants of land in aid of railways (Madison, Wis., 1899), by John Bell Sanborn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Northern Pacific land grants. Hearings before the Joint congressional committee on the investigation of the Northern Pacific railroad land grants ... (Govt. print. off., 1925), by United States. Congress. Joint committee on investigation of the North Pacific railroad land grants (page images at HathiTrust)
• Congressional grants of land in aid of railways ([s.n.], 1899), by John Bell Sanborn (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)
• United States of America, plaintiff, vs. Southern Pacific Company, et al., defendants. In equity 46 Civil, A16, A24-26, A28. Opinion of Judge Bledsoe, Aug. 28, 1919. ([n.p., 1919), by United States. District Court (California : Southern District : Northern Division), Benjamin Franklin Bledsoe, Southern Pacific Company, and United States (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Summary of findings on the impact of coal land exchanges on value of Indian-owned coal : a report (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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. (Govt. print. off., 1910), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• [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. (Govt. Prtg. Off., 1908), by United States. Committee on Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument upon the rights of the Northern Pacific railroad to their land grant (Evening post printing office, 1882), by Edwards Pierrepont and Northern Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad land grants : a statement of their history, their value and their cost (Publisher not identified, 1920), by W. W. Baldwin and George E. Chamberlain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad land grants in Oregon. (Washington, 1911), by United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit), Charles E. Wolverton, defendant Oregon and California railroad company, and plaintiff United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railway land grants in the United States : their history, economy and influence upon the development and prosperity of the country : the showings of the census reports, records of the U.S. Land Office and statistics of the various land grant roads (Railway Age Pub. Co., 1880), by E. H. Talbott and Association of Land Commissioners of the Land Grant Railways of the United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the Union Pacific Railroad lands. 12,000,000 acres. 3,000,000 acres in central and eastern Nebraska now for sale. (Land Dept., Union Pacific Railroad Co., 1876), by Union Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts regarding federal land grants to the railroads of the U.S. (Federal Transportation Association, 1938), by Federal Transportation Association. Research Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 ... (Land Department, Union Pacific Railroad Building, 1870), by Union Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern Pacific land grants. Hearings before the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session on H.J. res. 237. A resolution directing the secretary of the interior to withhold his approval of the adjustment of the Northern Pacific land grants and other purposes. May 5 and 6, 1924. (Govt. Print. Off., 1924), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indemnity lands of Northern Pacific Railroad Co.; argument of James McNaught, Counsel N.P.R.R. Co. (Pioneer Press, 1887), by James McNaught, United States. Attorney-General, and Northern Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decision of the Secretary of the Interior on the status of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company with respect to its land grant, June 11, 1879. (Evening Post Steam Presses, 1880), by United States. Dept. of the Interior and United States. General Land Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern Pacific railroad. The charter and amendments. The general mortgage on railroad and land grant, and copy of first mortgage bond. ([Philadephia?, 1870), by Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Jay Cooke, and Jay Cooke & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The policy of railroad land grants : a lecture ([Washington D.C.? : s.n., 1870), by Edward T. Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement showing land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, wagon roads, canals and internal improvements : together with data relative thereto (Govt. Print. Off., 1908), by United States. General Land Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valuation of railroad lands : hearings, Sixty-sixth Congress, third session. H.R. 13997. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1921), by United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (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)

• 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)

• 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 ... (Govt. Print. Off., 1916), by United States. Dept. of the Interior, United States. War Dept, and United States. Dept. of Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinion of the attorney-general, relative to the Cedar Rapids & Missouri river r.r. company. (F.W. Palmer, state printer, 1868), by Iowa. Attorney-General's Office and Henry O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communication from the attorney general to the Senate and House of representatives of the tenth General assembly, in response to resolutions relative to the Des Moines river and railroad grants. (F.W. Palmer, state printer, 1864), by Iowa. Attorney-General's Office and Charles Clinton Nourse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks of Hon. S.W. Downs of Louisiana on the bill making a grant of public lands to Iowa to aid in constructing certain railroads : delivered in the Senate, March 15, 1882. (Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1852), by Solomon W. Downs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Before the Hon. N. C. McFarland, Commissioner of the General Land Office, in the matter of adjustment of the land grant to the state of Kansas for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R.R. and branch ; brief and argument for the state (W.H. Moore, 1883), by S. J. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Relief of settlers within the grant to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railroad Co. : hearing before a subcommitte of the Committee on Public Lands, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, second session, on H.R. 5890, an act for the relief of settlers within the limits of the grant to the New Orleans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Railroad Co. (G.P.O., 1914), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

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