Book/Printed Material In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Henderson submitted the following report: The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred a report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in obedience to the resolution of the Senate of the 2d March, 1842, requiring, "a statement showing the construction given by him in practice to the act of 4th July, 1836, confirming the reports of the board of commissioners appointed to investigate private land claims in Missouri, under the act of 9th July, 1832, and 2d March, 1833, and whether, in his opinion, further legislation is necessary to carry out effectively and justly said act of July 4, 1836," have considered of the matters submitted, and instructed me to report
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 27th Congress 2d Session SENATE 440 IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES August 29 1842 Ordered to be printed Mr Henderson submitted the following REPORT The Committee on Private Land Claims to…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 2 440 It is perfectly obvious to the committee that if the construction of the Land Office Department be correct and that by virtue of all subsisting laws the claims under the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1842
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 3 440 facile material of legislative discretion These premises were surveyed to perhaps a wider extent than was necessary to the solution of the questions propounded and assuming hypotheses which in the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1842
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Image 5 of In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. …
Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 4 440 ciple is better settled in this country than that an inchoate title to lands is PROPERTY Independent of treaty stipulation this right would be held sacred m The people change…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Image 6 of In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. …
Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 5 440 emment to protect the right nor confers any right upon such citizen to de mand that protection That a treaty obligation incurred by this Government is no obligation under the…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1842
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Image 7 of In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. …
Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 6 440 been the precise measure and limitation of their power if these declaratory and express guaranties had not been inserted in the treaty That is if the United States had not…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1842
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Image 8 of In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. …
Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 7 440 pursuance of this constitution or treaties not made under but transcending the authority of the United States are not the supreme law of the land and the judges are not…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Image 9 of In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. …
Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 8 440 inent of the United States has no superior virtue over a title to the same land from any other Government or source of ownership The fact that a boundary or…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 9 440 but little favor Your committee on the contrary have considered these Government powers as prescribed by the constitution and have presented the private rights of the citizen as protected by…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
- Date: 1842
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 I 440 10 That if it shall be found that any tract or tracts confirmed as aforesaid or any part thereof had been previously located by any other persons under any law…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 11 440 and sold by the United Statesnot such lands as had been surveyed and sold a under any law of the United StatesFor it was familiarly known if sales had been…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 440 12 A Office of the Attorney General October 10 1825 Sir The case referred to me by your letter of the 4th instant from the General Land Office has had my…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 n 440 that date enabling the claimants to land within the limits of the State o Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the va lidity of their claims…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 440 14 without authority These sales are now in legal contemplation mere nullities and with the discovery and full knowledge of the fact before us why should we persist in the error…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 15 440 authorize the issuing of patents for the portion of the confirmed private claim not interfered with The undersigned it may be proper to remark entertained doubts as to the validity…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 16 440 may be indicated in any manner deemed proper at a convenient time so that this office may govern itself accordingly and proceed to further action in the way of giving…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 17 440 and subdivisions at one time and within one and the same district or can the claimant be allowed to take part of his new location in one district and part…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 1 440 18 By the law of nature which binds sovereigns it is extremely doubtful ac cording to the opinions of the first jurists of the time whether there be any redress…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Image 20 of In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. …
Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 19 440 ception in my opinion is not nugatory On the contrary the facts disclosed on the face of these papers and the fieree and strenuous litigation that hag already sprung out…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 20 440 act of 1824 it had taken the same precautions By that time it began to be apparent that the reservation made in the act of 1811 had been as from…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 21 440 Certainly Mr Wirt Opinions c vol 2 p 14 pronounced them void when made on lands not subject to sale lands for instance not surveyed or lands expressly reserved from…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Image 23 of In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. …
Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 22 440 1836 I should hold that patents were necessary the confirmation being by the supposition of mere inchoate titles under the Spanish or French grants At all events since this is…- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440 c 0 n a tl a 1 ii 1 P ac re M re th fu po th Se on pe in I apj 171 sioi ign tioi Sps bj othi- Contributor: United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims - Henderson, John - United States. Congress. Senate - United States. Government Publishing Office
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- In Senate of the United States. August 29, 1842. Ordered to be printed. Mr. Henderson submitted the following report: The Committee on Private Land Claims, to whom was referred a report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in obedience to the resolution of the Senate of the 2d March, 1842, requiring, "a statement showing the construction given by him in practice to the act of 4th July, 1836, confirming the reports of the board of commissioners appointed to investigate private land claims in Missouri, under the act of 9th July, 1832, and 2d March, 1833, and whether, in his opinion, further legislation is necessary to carry out effectively and justly said act of July 4, 1836," have considered of the matters submitted, and instructed me to report
Other Title
- Cited as: S. Doc. 27-440
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- United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims
- Henderson, John 1797-1857
- United States. Government Publishing Office, publisher, distributor
- United States. Congress. Senate, author
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- [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1842.
Headings
- - United States.--Congress.--Powers and duties
- - Annexation (International law)
- - Land tenure
- - Land titles
- - Public land sales
- - Public lands
- - Right of property
- - Territories and possessions
- - Treaties
- - Spain--Territories and possessions
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- Government publication
- Legislative materials
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- 1 online resource (22 p.).
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- KF12
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- 2024885304
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- Henderson, John
- United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Private Land Claims
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. Government Publishing Office