Morris v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The act of Maryland, entitled “An act to cede to Congress a district of ten miles square in this State for the seat of the Government of the United States,” 1788, c. 46, was in the following terms: “ Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Marylandj that the representatives of this State in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, appointed to assemble at New York, on the first Wednesday of…
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The act of Maryland, entitled “An act to cede to Congress a district of ten miles square in this State for the seat of the Government of the United States,” 1788, c. 46, was in the following terms: “ Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Marylandj that the representatives of this State in the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, appointed to assemble at New York, on the first Wednesday of March next, be and they are hereby authorized and required, on behalf of this State, to cede to the Congress of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
1. The first question for our determination arises out of the claims of the heirs of James M. Marshall and the heirs of John Marshall to the ownership of the entire bed of the Potomac River, from shore to shore, including therein the reclaimed lands.
Their claims are based upon two distinct lines or sources of title, inconsistent with each other : One originating in the charter granted by Charles I, King of England, on June 20, 1632, to ' Cecilius Calvert, second Baron of Baltimore and first Lord'Proprietary of the Province of Maryland; the other, in the charter granted by James II, King of…
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