...question turns, are: Whenever, prior to said time, (ie, the definite location of the route of the road) any of said sections, or parts of sections, shall...settlers, or pre-empted, or otherwise disposed of, other land shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof. The language of the corresponding provision...

...question turns, are: Whenever, prior to said time, (ie, the definite location of the route of the road) any of said sections, or parts of sections, shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied T>y homestead settlers, or pre-empted, or otherwise disposed of, other laud shall be selected by said...

...made by a clause in the act of 1804, providing that wherever, prior to the date of definite location, 'any of said sections or parts of sections shall have...occupied by homestead settlers, or pre-empted, or other wise disposed of, other lands shall'be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction...

...said time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, oceupied by homestead settlers, or pre-empted, or otherwise...lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond...

...definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of tbe General Land Office: and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections...sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, or pre empted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof,...

...definitely fixed and a plat thereof filed in the •office of the commissioner of the General Land Office ; and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sections tiall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers or pre-empted, or otherwise...

...office of the Commissioner of the General Lane Office ; and whenever, prior to said time, any o: •aid sections or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homesteac settlers, or pre-empted or otherwise disposed of other lands shall be selected by said company...

...semicolon, the meaning, perhaps, would have been clearer. But there follows another clause,, that " whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections,...lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond...

...designated by a plat thereof, filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office ; and whenever prior to said time, any of said sections...of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved or occupied by homestead settlers, or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected...

...designated by a plat thereof, filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office; ana whenever prior to said time any of said sections or...sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, or occupied by homestead settlers, or pre-empted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected...