MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
The following are no longer open questions in this court:
1. That the grant of lands to the Territory of Iowa for the improvement of the Des Moines River, made by the act of August 8th, 1846, c. 103, 9 S at. 77, did not extend above the Raccoon Fork. Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company v. Litchfield, 23 How. 66.
2. That, notwithstanding this, the odd-numbered sections within...
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