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Example sentences for "land grant"

  • The little colony of Massachusetts veterans that settled at Marietta received a land grant as large as the State of Rhode Island.

  • The speech hopelessly defeated a bill making a land grant to a proposed railroad, of which Duluth was to be the terminus.

  • Chief in importance of his public services to his State was that of Senator Douglas in procuring from Congress a land grant to aid in the construction of the Illinois Central Railroad.

  • Not much, I suppose I should say, since he means me to be his biographer.

  • I am overcome by their kindness, and overwhelmed with a sense of my own unworthiness.

  • And you require yours to be particularly healthy just now, Doctor.

  • With the experience of three years behind them and the Land Grant, Government Bonds and prospective earnings, not to speak of the element of pride ahead, the two lines entered into a race the like of which had never been seen.

  • When such an implication was made in a land grant to Barkham in 1621, the company reacted with bitter resentment.

  • The role of the public estate, however, never assumed great significance, yet there is evidence of the continued practice during the seventeenth century of endowing an office such as Governor or secretary with the proceeds of a land grant.

  • Conditions of Land Grant In regard to the land grant, the Land Office was called on for a great many decisions after 1864, mostly in interpretation of the exemptions carried in the federal legislation.

  • The grant did not, however, follow the sinuosities in the track, so that in the mountain sections it was quite possible for two miles of railroad to be constructed and yet only one mile of land grant to be obtained.


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