The construction of about eleven hundred miles of railroad in Iowa was aided by land grants.
Nothing in this country has contributed so much to the subversion of our republican institutions as Land Grants made by congress to railroad corporations, and congressional legislation in their favor.
In that state, where no government aid has been voted to railroads, the wealth of the state has nearly doubled, while in the same time in the state of Iowa it has not increased fifty per cent, land grants included.
There were no money subsidies, and no land grants except to the extent sufficient for the company’s actual needs.
The difficulty of financing these enterprises was solved in part by the expedient of land grants by the different states.
In a single session seven states asked for nearly fourteen million acres of land, while before 1857 some five thousand miles of railway had been aided by land grants.
Direct federal aid was given to the road in the form of land grants, right of way, and a loan of bonds.
B= His evidence on land grants in Upper Canada, 53-54.
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Investors were keen for bonds secured by land grants of enormous extent, and bearing a liberal interest, especially when offered at a seductive discount.
Railroads, fostered by land grants, sent an increasing tide of immigrants into the Far West.
National aid to education has heretofore taken the form of land grants, and in that form the constitutional power of Congress to promote the education of the people is not seriously questioned.
In matters of land grants, however, it had a separate identity.
In a listing of land grants in 1625, there is reference to Mathews "Divident planted" although no acreage is mentioned.
But the commission made no reference to land grants, and Governor Wyatt issued none after January, 1625.
His proclamation stating policy relative to Virginia professed protection of the interests of private planters and adventurers but made no direct reference to land grants.
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