"Confiscatory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into possession of the property, reorganizing under the name of the McGregor Western Railway Company. Nearly all the early investments of Iowa people were thus confiscated by the same class of men who now cry out loudly against confiscatory measures. By an act of Congress approved May 12, 1864, the State of Iowa was granted, for the use and benefit of the McGregor Western Railroad Company, every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers for ten sections in width on each side of the proposed road. ...
— The Railroad Question - A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and - remedies for their abuses • William Larrabee |
