Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund v. Bailey
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from Leon Circuit Court. By an act of the Congress of the United States, March, 1845, certain lands were granted to the State of Florida to he applied to objects of Internal improvement within the State, to wit: roads, railways, bridges, canals, improvement of water courses and draining of swamps.
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Appeal from Leon Circuit Court. By an act of the Congress of the United States, March, 1845, certain lands were granted to the State of Florida to he applied to objects of Internal improvement within the State, to wit: roads, railways, bridges, canals, improvement of water courses and draining of swamps. In September, 1850, Congress passed another act known as the Swam]) Land Act, granting all swamp and overflowed lands within the same to the State, providing that the proceeds of the same, as far as necessary, should he applied to the purpose of reclaiming said swamp lands by means of levees…
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, J.,
delivered tlie opinion of the Court.
The complainant in the Circuit Court for Middle Florida asked by his bill filed in this case, that the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund be restrained from appropriating any portion of said Fund to the clearing out of the mouth of the Apalachicola river, claiming that such appropriation would be in derogation of his right as a large bond holder under the Act of January 6th, 1855, creating said fund, and providing for the existence of said Trustees.
The Trustees answer among other things that they are expressly commanded to make the…
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