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Book/Printed Material In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following views of the minority. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3186.) The most improvident and reckless of the land grant legislation during the last twenty-five years, and the most open and brazen frauds, the most defiant hostility to honest methods, the most unsavory scandals of corruption, form the principal history of what is known as the Backbone Road, formerly the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, latterly the New Orleans Pacific Cited as: S. Rept. 49-1612

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  • In the Senate of the United States. August 2, 1886. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following views of the minority. (To accompany Bill H.R. 3186.) The most improvident and reckless of the land grant legislation during the last twenty-five years, and the most open and brazen frauds, the most defiant hostility to honest methods, the most unsavory scandals of corruption, form the principal history of what is known as the Backbone Road, formerly the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, latterly the New Orleans Pacific

Other Title

  • Cited as: S. Rept. 49-1612

Names

  • United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands
  • Van Wyck, Charles Henry 1824-1895
  • United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
  • United States. Congress. Senate, author

Created / Published

  • [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886.

Headings

  • -  Forfeiture
  • -  Fraud
  • -  Railroad construction workers
  • -  Railroad land grants
  • -  Railroads

Genre

  • Government publication
  • Legislative materials

Medium

  • 1 online resource (3 pages).

Call Number/Physical Location

  • KF12
  • 49-1:S.RP.1612
  • Y 1.1/2:SERIAL 2365

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024806735

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

United States Congress. Senate. Committee On Public Lands, Charles Henry Van Wyck, Publisher United States Government Publishing Office, and Author United States Congress. Senate. In the Senate of the United States August 2, . -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following views of the minority. To accompany Bill H.R. 3186. The most improvident and reckless of the land grant legislation during the last twenty-five years, and the most open and brazen frauds, the most defiant hostility to honest methods, the most unsavory scandals of corruption, form the principal history of what is known as the Backbone Road, formerly the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, latterly the New Orleans Pacific. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024806735/.

APA citation style:

United States Congress. Senate. Committee On Public Lands, Van Wyck, C. H., United States Government Publishing Office, P. & United States Congress. Senate, A. (1886) In the Senate of the United States August 2, . -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following views of the minority. To accompany Bill H.R. 3186. The most improvident and reckless of the land grant legislation during the last twenty-five years, and the most open and brazen frauds, the most defiant hostility to honest methods, the most unsavory scandals of corruption, form the principal history of what is known as the Backbone Road, formerly the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, latterly the New Orleans Pacific. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024806735/.

MLA citation style:

United States Congress. Senate. Committee On Public Lands, et al. In the Senate of the United States August 2, . -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Van Wyck, from the Committee on Public Lands, submitted the following views of the minority. To accompany Bill H.R. 3186. The most improvident and reckless of the land grant legislation during the last twenty-five years, and the most open and brazen frauds, the most defiant hostility to honest methods, the most unsavory scandals of corruption, form the principal history of what is known as the Backbone Road, formerly the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg, latterly the New Orleans Pacific. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1886] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024806735/>.