...said state for the purposes aforesaid, and for no other; and the said railroad shall be and remain a public highway for the use of the government of the United States, free from all toll or other charge, for the transportation of any property or troops of the United States." 1st...

...whereupon patents for the lands coterminous therewith were to be issued. The railroad was to be and remain "a public highway for the use of the government of the United States, free of all toll or other charges" for the transportation of [233] its property or troops. An assent to...

...be applied to no purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said canal shall be, and remain ° er use' a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free ,No ¿°utoto £'; from toll or other charge upon the vessels of said government engaged UnUod States....

...Wabash and Erie canal which lies in Indiana; "said canal when completed to be," and forever remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from any (oil or other charge whatever, for any property of (he United States, or persons in their service...

...wording of earlier wagon and canal acts in requiring that the land-grant railroad should "be and remain a public highway for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States." As subsequently determined...