Excerpt from Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1892: Richard P. Barden and Others, Plaintiffs in Error, Vs. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company; In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Montana The facts, as they appear from the record, are these. On July (13 Stat., Congress passed the act to which reference has been made, chartering the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and granting to it alternate sections of the public land along its proposed route. The portions of the act that seem to bear upon the present controversy are the following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.