Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1817
..... the late major general nathaniel greene to twenty-five thousand acres of land given to him, within the bounds of the land reserved for the use of the army, by the tenth section of the act of the legislature of north carolina passed in 1782 as a mark of the sense entertained by that state of his eminent services. this was a bill ..... almost necessarily to the opinion that the lands granted to martin and wilson were a part of those to which the act related, and the words of the section show that their title was acquired by this act. by no course of just reasoning can it be inferred from these permissions to make appropriations within bounds not open to entry generally that a ..... on the same ground, protected by his preexisting title, whatever it might be. but it is contended that his title was annulled by the general authority given in the 9th section of the act to enter all the lands within the enlarged limits then opened to purchasers. to this argument it is answered 1st. that the 11th .....
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