...any State in this Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain...which have been or may hereafter be declared such by act of Congress, and over, under or across the navigable streams or waters of the United States : Provided,...

...complying with certain conditions "the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain...the military or post roads of the United States," etc.; and that such a tax would impair and destroy the right thus conferred. In the case of Telegraph...

...legislation , and that said act extends not only to such poet rouds as are on the public domain, bat to "any of the military or post roads of the United States...which have been, or may hereafter be, declared such by act of congress." The court say, among other things, as follows: "It is not necessary now to inquire...

...may construct and operate lines over any portion of the public domain, across any navigable water, and along any of the military or post roads of the United »States; that -the United Stales shall have priority in sending telegrams between the departments of government,...

...military and post-roads as are upon the public domain ; but this, we think, is not so. The language is : "Through and over any portion of the public domain...United States, over and along any of the military or post-roads of the United States which have been or may hereafter be declared such by act of Congress,...

...the laws of any State, should have the right to construct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, and over and along any of the military or post-roads of the United States, which had been or...

...telegraph companies, organized under the laws of any of the states, the right to construct telegraph lines through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, and over and along any of the military and post roads of the United States, and over and across...

...complying with certain conditions, "the right to construct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain...the military or post roads of the United States," etc., and that such a tax would impair and destroy the right thus conferred. In the case of Western...

...under that law to so much of the lines of the telegraph company as were, in the language of section 5263, "through and over any portion of the public...United States, over and along any of the military or post-roads of the United States which have been or may hereafter be declared such by law, and over,...

...right to eonstrnet, maintaia, and operate lines of telegraph throngh and over any portion of the pnhlie domain of the United States, over and along any of the military or post roads of the United States, whieh have heen or may hereafter he deelared sneh hy aet of Congress, and over, ander, or aeross the...