692 RAILROAD LAND-GRANTS. 



REDFIELD, ISAAC F. 



RAILROAD LAND -GRANTS. By the 



courtesy of the Commissioner of the Land- 

 Office, Hon. J. A. Williamson, the following 

 statement is furnished of all the lands certified 

 to different railroads in the year ending June 

 30, 1876 : 



Alabama & Chattanooga 



South & North Alabama 



Memphis & Little Rock 



Little Rock & Fort Smith 



Cairo & Fulton 



Burlington & Missouri River 



Cedar Rapids & Missouri River 



Dubuque & Sioux City 



Grand Rapids & Indiana 



Chicago & Northwestern 



Wisconsin Railroad Farming Mortgage Land Co. . 



Wisconsin Central 



St. Paul & Pacific 19,616 



Minnesota Central 40 



St. Paul&Sioux City 2,238 



Lake Superior & Mississippi 32,355 



Miles. 



2,188 



8,107 



7,897 



61,727 



64,017 



280 



406 



1,069 



2,002 



2,251 



40 



600 



Southern Minnesota 4,803 



Hastings & Dakota 480 



Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston 160 



Missouri, Kansas & Texas 84,249 



St. Joseph & Denver City 128,876 



Missouri River, Fort Scott & Gulf 8,677 



Union Pacific 219,378 



Kansas Pacific 63.665 



Central Pacific 11,454 



Burlington & Missouri River 840 



Sioux City & Pacific 400 



Oregon Branch (Central Pacific) 1,520 



Oregon & California 14,629 



Atlantic & Pacific 642 



Southern Pacific 285,705 



" " 41,178 



Total 1 ,065,484 



The following summary shows the total land- 

 grants made by the United States Government 

 for railroads and wagon-roads up to June 30, 

 1876: 



RECAPITULATION. 



RANDALL, SAMUEL J., was horn in Phila- 

 delphia, October 10, 1828. Much of his life 

 has been spent in mercantile pursuits, and he 

 has served one term in the Pennsylvania Sen- 

 ate. At the beginning of the civil war he en- 

 listed as a private soldier, and served under 

 Colonel George H. Thomas. In 1862 he was 

 elected to Congress, where he has continued 

 by successive reflections, serving on many im- 

 portant committees, and becoming chairman 

 of the Committee on Appropriations. In De- 

 cember, 1876, he was elected by the Demo- 

 crats Speaker of the House of Representatives 

 a position for which he had been an unsuc- 

 cessful candidate at the beginning of the Forty- 

 fourth Congress. 



REDFIELD, ISAAC FLETCHER, an American 

 jurist, born in Weathersfield, Vt., April 10, 



1804; died in Boston, Mass., in March, 1876. 

 He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1825, 

 studied law, and practised at Derby, and after- 

 ward at Windsor, Vt. From 1835 to 1860 he 

 was a Judge of the Supreme Court, being 

 Chief-Justice from 1852; and from 1858 to 

 1862 he was Professor of Medical Jurispru- 

 dence in Dartmouth College. In 1861 he re- 

 moved to Boston, where he continued to reside 

 till his death. From January, 1867, be was 

 for two years Special Counsel of the United 

 States in Europe, having charge of many im- 

 portant suits and legal matters in England and 

 France. He received the degree of LL. D. 

 from Trinity College in 1848, and from Dart- 

 mouth in 1855. He was the author of "The 

 Law of Railways " (1857 ; fifth edition, 2 vols., 

 1873); "The Law of Wills" (3 vols., 1864); 



