...by warrants or scrip are swamp and overflowed within the meaning of the act of September 28, 1850, " the said State or States shall be authorized to locate...subject to entry at one dollar and a quarter per acre or Jess, and patents shall issue therefor upon the terms and conditions enumerated in the act aforesaid....

...discontinued. These conclusions render unnecessary any discussion as to the meaning of the descriptive phrase " public lands subject to entry at one dollar and a quarter per acre," and similar expressions, when found in general legislation. The decision appealed from is reversed....

...where tho lands have been located by warrant or scrip, the said State or States shall be anthorized to locate a quantity of like amount, upon any of the...therefor, upon the terms and conditions enumerated in tho act aforesaid: Provided, iioictrer, That the said decisions of the Commissioner of the General...

...aforesaid, the purchase money shall bo paid over to the said State or States ; and where tho lands have been located by warrant or scrip, the said State or States shall be authorised to locate a quantity of like amount, upon any of the, public lauds subject to entry, at...

...States in lieu of swamp lands that had been entered with land warrants, land scrip entitling the State to locate a "quantity of like amount upon any of the...entry at one dollar and a quarter per acre or less." The Commissioner of the United States General Land Office has so construed this law as to require the...

...aforesaid, the purchase money shall be paid over to the said State or States; and where the lands have been located by warrant or scrip the said State or States shall be authorized to locate a quantify of like amount, upon any of I he public lands subject to 1 il entry, at оно dollar and...

...the plain terms of the act of 1855 the State is limited in its selection of swamp indemnity lands to "the public lands subject to entry at one dollar and a quarter per acre or less." As the lands in question were at the date of the attempted location and selection by the State subject...

...Page. INDEMNITY. Swamp land indemnity locations under the act of March 2. 1865. can only be made upon " public lands subject to entry at one dollar and a quarter per acre, or less'' ..... 197 Selection by the State of indemnity school lands in lieu of lands claimed to have been lost...

...Stat., 634), provides that where swamp lands have been disposed of by the United States, the State shall be authorized " to locate a quantity of like...entry, at one dollar and a quarter per acre, or less." In construing this act, it has been held that a State is not entitled to locate swamp land indemnity...

...aforesaid, the purchase money shall be paid over to the said State or States; and where the lands have been located by warrant or scrip the said State or...a quantity of like amount, upon any of the public lauds subject to entry, at one dollar and a quarler per acre, or less, and patents shall issue therefor,...