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Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1828
Jackson v. Clark - 26 U.S. 628 (1828) U.S. Supreme Court Jackson v. Clark, 26 U.S. 1 Pet. 628 628 (1828) Jackson v. Clark 26 U.S. (1 Pet.) 628 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OHIO Syllabus Construction of the Act of Congress passed March 2, 1807, entitled "An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military warrants, for returning surveys thereon to the office of the Secretary of the Department of War, and appropriating lands for the use of schools in the Virginia military reservation in lieu of those heretofore appropriated." The reservation made by the law of Virginia of 1783, ceding to Congress the territory northwest of the River Ohio, is not a reservation of the whole tract of country between the Rivers Scioto and Little Miami. It is a reservation of only so much of it as may be necessary to make up the deficiency of good lands in the country set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia Line on the continental establis...
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