Download or read book The Evolution of the Federal Railroad Land Grant Policy written by Mary Alice Storie and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Development of Railway Land Subsidy Policy in the United States written by John Bell Rae and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reviews the adoption, administration, and termination of the Federal railroad land grant policy. Two types of railroad grants are analyzed, those to the states and those to corporations. It outlines the conflicts that arose with other land policies and suggests that a major flaw in the policy was inadequate provisions for administration.
Download or read book Railroads and Land Grant Policy written by Lloyd J. Mercer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A Study in Government Intervention attempts to replace a major part of the railroad land grant legend (according to which the granting of federal and state land to private railroad firms benefitted these firms more than it contributed to society as a whole) with some real numbers and analysis. An attempt is made to put the income and wealth distribution impact of the railroad land grants in perspective, but thorough analysis of this issue is not undertaken. The primary question this study does try to illuminate is that of the effect of the railroad land grants on economic efficiency. This emphasis was chosen because it seems clear that improvement of economic efficiency was the major goal that Congress and various state legislatures sought to attain, and thus the examination of economic efficiency questions is fundamental to evaluation of railroad land grant policy. This study will not completely replace the railroad land grant legend (because much is not covered here), but it does represent a considerable diminution of that legend.
Download or read book Railway Land Grants in the United States written by Elisha H. Talbott and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Land Grants written by William Wright Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Policy of Railroad Land Grants written by Edward Thomas Peters and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legal History of Federally Granted Railroad Rights of Way written by Darwin P. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the United States government granted railroads thousands of miles of rights of way out of the federal public lands. Court decisions, led by an influential 1942 opinion by the United States Supreme Court, have held that there was a major shift in federal right of way granting policy in 1871, the year that the federal government ceased granting checkerboard land subsidies to railroads. Courts have held that as a consequence, the federal government has retained only limited rights in railroad rights of way that it granted after 1871. The courts have upheld Fifth Amendment takings claims against the government's reuse of such rights of way for purposes such as rail trails. This article contends that there is no historical evidence for an 1871 shift in federal right of way law, and that the Supreme Court erred when it held that there was such a shift. Based on a review of the history of federal railroad right of way grants and federal railroad land subsidy grants, it concludes that federal right of way grants were part of a Congressional policy that was consistent both before and after 1871. Under that policy, the federal government did not grant railroads full title to their federally granted rights of way. Instead, the government retained ownership and/or control of those rights of way sufficient to control their disposition if later abandoned by the railroads. It concludes, therefore, that the United States government should not be liable for Fifth Amendment takings claims based on new uses of federally granted railroad rights of way.
Download or read book Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways written by John Bell Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts written by Robert Selph Henry and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroads Lands and Politics written by Leslie Edward Decker and published by Providence : Brown University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes information on the Central Pacific Railroad, homestead law and homesteaders, Kansas Pacific Railroad, lobbyists, Northern Pacific Railroad, Pacific Railway Commission of 1887, immigrants, population expansion, Santa Fe Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Union Pacific Railroad, etc.
Download or read book The Future City on the Inland Sea written by Eric D. Olmanson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, the southern shores of Lake Superior held great promise for developers imagining the next great metropolis. These new territories were seen as expanses to be filled, first with romantic visions, then with scientific images, and later with vistas designed to entice settlement and economic development. The Future City on the Inland Sea describes the attempts of explorers under government, commercial, or scientific sponsorship to project their imaginative visions on a region where the future did not happen as planned. Author Eric D. Olmanson takes a fresh look at the settlements in the vicinity of Chequamegon Bay and the Apostle Islands by analyzing the texts and images left by the missionaries, geologists, ordinance surveyors, newspaper editors, and boosters. The Future City on the Inland Sea shows how new visions of the place absorbed and replaced the old ones, eventually producing what might be called for the first time "a region." More than a regional geography, The Future City on the Inland Sea is an appraisal of these early efforts to meld geographies of physical nature with those of human ideals, a demonstration of how thoroughly and paradoxically those two realms are entangled.
Download or read book Conservation Aspects of the History of the Oregon and California Railroad Land Grant written by Shirley Walter Allen and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways Classic Reprint written by John Bell Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways In the library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin have been found most of the materials from which this mono graph has been prepared, and I wish to express my appreciation of the unfailing courtesy of the officers of that society and of the members of the library staff. Some additional materials were found in the Chicago Public Library, The Newbury Li brary and the library of the Chicago Historical Society. During my work on this monograph I have been under con stant obligation to Professor F. J. Turner, who has given not only advice but actual assistance at every point in my investiga tion and in the preparation of my work for the press. Profes sor C. H. Haskins has read the proofs and made many valuable suggestions, while Professor W. H. Hobbs has also given assist ance in the proof-reading. 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.
Download or read book The Policy of Railroad Land Grants A Lecture Delivered by E T Peters Before the Pre Emptors Union in Metzerott Hall Washington D C on Wednes written by Edward Thomas Peters and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Policy of Railroad Land Grants: A Lecture Delivered by E. T. Peters, Before the Pre-Emptors' Union, in Metzerott Hall, Washington D. C., On Wednesday Evening, April 27th, 1870 Business before pleasure, is a. Maxim of some age and respectability. I ear neatly hope it isin favor with m pres ent auditors, tor I am about to as your attention to a matter which is in a most. 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.
Download or read book The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts written by Robert Selph Henry and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Railroad Land Grant Legend in American History Texts written by Robert S Henry and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Land Grants 1850 1857 written by John Bell Sanborn and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
