Record in the Case of the United States of America Versus Fernando M. Arredondo and Others

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Duff Green, 1831 - Florida - 288 pages
 

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Page 20 - our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, by which his Catholic Majesty ceded to the said United States, in full property and sovereignty, all the territories which then belonged to him, situated to the eastward of the Mississippi, known by the .name of East and West Florida, in which
Page 280 - by his Catholic Majesty, or by his lawful authorities, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid if the territories had remained under the dominion of his Catholic Majesty.
Page 274 - made before the 24th of January, 1818, by his Catholic Majesty, or by his lawful authorities in the said territories, ceded by his Majesty to the United States, " shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the
Page 136 - vessel hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, one of which being accomplished, the other to stand void. Dated in New York, the
Page 60 - chiefs, head warriors, and leaders of our respective nations, by virtue and in pursuance of the full rights and power which we now have and are possessed of, have agreed, and we do hereby agree, that, for the future, the boundary line of his Majesty's said province of East Florida shall be all the
Page 136 - charter party. In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said vessel hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, one of which being accomplished, the
Page 11 - provisions of the act of Congress of the United States entitled "An act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement and confirmation of private land claims in Florida,
Page 251 - and still more savage men,' cutting down and subduing the forest, and encountering all the hardships and privations necessarily incident to the conversion of the wilderness into cultivated fields, was worth the fee simple of the soil? And was it not believed that the mother country found ample remuneration for the value of the
Page 274 - extent that the same grants would be valid if the territories had remained under the dominion of his Catholic Majesty.
Page 286 - entitled ' An act supplementary to the several acts providing " for the settlement and confirmation of private land claims in " Florida,

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