MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.
This cause is before us upon questions certified by the Circuit Court of Appeals pursuant to the Judiciary Act of March 3, 1891, c. 517, 26 Stat. 826.
The controlling facts in the extended statement sent up by the Judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals, as the basis of the questions propounded, are these:
By an act approved May 12, 1864, c. 84, Congress made a grant of lands to the State of Iowa...
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