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..... was intended to be excluded. as five hundred wheat-growing farms were to be established under the supervision of the baron, it is manifest that a large section of country was deemed necessary, because the greater portion of southern flat and wet lands were unfit for the purpose of raising wheat. another circumstance is ..... 1797. "baron de carondelet" "the senor baron de bastrop" " concession " "the baron de carondelet, knight of the religion of st. john, field marshal of the royal armies, governor general, vice-patron of the provinces of louisiana, west florida, inspector of their troops &c.;" "whereas the baron de bastrop, in consequence of the petition, page 52 ..... government, not being a perfect title in our judgment either in form or substance, its character and validity can be inquired into and adjudged under the act of congress. and that it was of this imperfect character complainants themselves formerly assumed, they having submitted their title to a board of commissioners instituted to .....
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..... florida, on 12 may, 1821, i, the subscribed notary of the government, in virtue of the disposition made by his excellency, don jose coppinger, colonel of the national armies, military governor, and civil authority of this place, and of the province thereof, by a decree of the 10th instant, issued at the instance presented by marquis de ..... , however, is certain -- that the change of location never received any direct sanction from the governor of the spanish province during the time his powers existed to act in the matter. on this state of facts, the question is whether the surveyor general had any authority to make the change, and thereby bind the spanish government ..... appellants, who were the petitioners in the court below, on 28 may, 1829, filed their petition in the superior court for the eastern district of florida under the act of congress dated 28 may, 1828, which gave authority to that court to adjudicate claims to land embraced by the treaty of 22 february, 1819, between the united .....
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..... show the particular interests which they respectively desired to protect and the objects they proposed to attain by mutual cooperation. the first act incorporating this company was passed by maryland in 1799. the last section is in the following words: "provided, that this law shall be of no force or effect until a law shall be ..... by the special permission of the company, and if that is granted, then to receive a fair rate of toll for each passenger." "extracts from the minutes." "peter v. lesley, sec. " " (exhibit no. 3) " to john a. perrine, esq., princeton, new jersey. "chesapeake & delaware canal office" "philadelphia, 30 march, 1847" "sir: your letter of the ..... subscriptions to the stock were proposed by maryland and pennsylvania by laws reciting the advantages which this canal would afford to the united states in transporting inland its armies and munitions of war. these recitals show that persons as well as page 50 u. s. 192 property were to pass through, and that it was expected .....
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..... be any evidence showing an intent on the part of the plaintiff to resume ownership over the goods as his private property after they had been seized by the army, or any act done by him that would, when properly viewed, lead to that result. the bill of exceptions concludes as follows: "after the judge expressed his views of the ..... trade freely in all such places as might be subdued and occupied by the american arms. the plaintiff and other traders availed themselves of this permission and followed the army to santa fe. subsequently general kearney proceeded to california, and the command in new mexico devolved on colonel doniphan, who was joined by colonel mitchell, who served under ..... the clerk and order of court at the end of this case.) mitchell was an officer of the army, and was sued in an action of trespass by harmony for seizing his property in the mexican state of chihuahua. by an act passed on 3 march, 1845, 5 stat. 750, congress allowed a drawback on foreign merchandise exported in .....
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..... to have been suffered by the spanish officers and individual spanish inhabitants by the late operations of the american army in florida." in 1823, congress passed an act to carry into execution this article of the treaty. the 1st section of this law authorizes the judges of the superior courts established at st. augustine and pensacola, respectively, to ..... which by process of law shall be established to have been suffered by the spanish officers and individual spanish inhabitants by the late operations of the american army in florida." congress, by two acts passed in 1823 and 1834, 3 stat. 768, and 6 stat. 569, directed the judge of the territorial court of florida to receive, ..... testimony and deciding upon the validity of claims to the pensions granted by the former law, and by the 3d section it saved all rights to pensions which might be founded "upon any legal adjudication," under the act of 1792, and made it the duty of the secretary of war, in conjunction with the attorney general, .....
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..... any land office of the united states in the state of louisiana a like quantity of public land elsewhere, in conformity with the provision of the 11th section of the act of congress approved on 26 may, 1824." this decision of the district judge is palpably inconsistent with the repeated adjudications of this court upon the language ..... any land office of the united states in the state of louisiana a like quantity of public land elsewhere in conformity with the provisions of the eleventh section of the act of congress approved on 26 may, 1824." now it is to be observed in the first place that there is in this case, on the ..... boundaries are described with great precision. this certificate is followed by an instrument adopting and confirming it, signed by gayoso de lemos, styling himself brigadier of the royal armies, governor general and royal vice-patron of the provinces of louisiana and west florida, and this instrument, after reciting the boundaries as contained in the certificate, concludes .....
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..... transaction occurred which gave rise to the present suit, she was residing with her husband, tyler, at hopkinton, in new hampshire. black resided near the land in maine, and had acted as the agent of the owner of the remaining undivided interest for upwards of twenty years. in november, 1846, black went to fairfield in vermont and offered to purchase the ..... he offered and which the complainants accepted upon his representations, was an inadequate price. but the ground upon which we shall put this case is that the defendant did not act fairly in the representations made by him to the complainants of the quantity and quality of the land, and in his statement to them that he had a claim upon .....
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..... independence of texas at that time in the following words: "it is true, with regard to texas, the civil authority of mexico has been expelled, its invading army defeated, the chief of the republic himself captured, and all present power to control the newly organized government of texas annihilated within its confines. but on the other ..... countenanced and sustained contracts made in violation of the duties which the law imposes or in contravention of the known and established policy of the political department, acting within the limits of its constitutional power. but it has been urged in the argument that texas was in fact independent, and a sovereign state at the ..... in their possession to enable them not only to decide correctly, but to shield their decision from every unworthy imputation." senate journal of 1836-1837, p. 54. acting upon these principles, the independence of texas was not acknowledged by the government of the united states until the beginning of march, 1837. up to that time, .....
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..... the bond given when he was appointed administrator de bonis non of kosciusko. but when other sureties are called for by the orphans' court, under the third section of the act of february 20, 1846, and are given, they do not bear the same relation to the administrator that his original sureties did, and they will be bound ..... the close of the war, and then retired from the army, after our independence had been acknowledged, with the rank of brigadier general. he stood prominently with those great men of our own country, with whom he had given ..... colonel bomford, the administrator de bonis non, in eighteen hundred and forty-eight. general kosciusko came to the united states early in our revolutionary war, to join our army. he did so at first as a volunteer. in october, 1776, he received from congress the commission of colonel of engineers. he served with great distinction until .....
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..... right to unlade in any part of the united states which had not been made a collection district with ports of entry or delivery. the ninety-second section of that act had four objects in view. first, to exclude foreign goods subject to the payment of duties from being brought into the united states, except in the ..... as 1846. shortly afterward, the united states had military possession of all of upper california. early in 1847, the president, as constitutional commander-in-chief of the army and navy, authorized the military and naval commander of our forces in california to exercise the belligerent rights of a conqueror, and to form a civil government for ..... the united states had military possession of all of upper california. early in 1847, the president of the united states, as constitutional commander-in-chief of the army and navy, authorized the military and naval commanders of the united states forces in california to exercise the belligerent rights of a conqueror, and to form a civil .....
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