(DOWNLOAD) "Sebastian Willot, John Mcdonald, And Joseph Hunn, Plaintiffs in Error v. John F. A. Sandford" by United States Supreme Court * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Sebastian Willot, John Mcdonald, And Joseph Hunn, Plaintiffs in Error v. John F. A. Sandford
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1856
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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Peter Chouteau, claiming under one Dissonet, laid before Recorder Bates a claim for 800 arpens of land, situate in St. Charles county, Missouri. The evidence presented to the recorder was a certificate of a private survey embracing the claim as set up, with proof that Dissonet had inhabited and cultivated the land from 1798 to 1805. The recorder pronounced the claim valid as a settlement right to the extent of 640 acres, and declared that it ought to be surveyed as nearly in a square as might be, so as to include Dissonet's improvements; and, furthermore, that the land should be surveyed at the expense of the United States. This report was confirmed by Congress, by the act of April 29, 1816. The land was surveyed in 1817, by authority of the United States. A patent certificate was forwarded to the General Land Office by the recorder of land titles at St. Louis, in 1823, and a patent issued on it in 1850. Protection is claimed by the defendants, under the survey and patent.