United States v. Moore
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The act, approved 17th June, 1844, [4 Stat. at Large, p. 676,} revived and continued .for five years, and extended to the State of Louisiana the expired act of 26th May, 1824, entitled “ An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims.” 4 Stat. at Large,…
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The act, approved 17th June, 1844, [4 Stat. at Large, p. 676,} revived and continued .for five years, and extended to the State of Louisiana the expired act of 26th May, 1824, entitled “ An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims.” 4 Stat. at Large, p. 52. Under this act, Michael Moore presented his petition to the District Court of the United States for the District…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
The petition states, that about the 11th September, 1797, Antonio Yriarte, a resident of the Province of Louisiana, for the sum of 24,708 reals by him- paid, purchased from the proper authorities under the government of Spain, to wit: Juan Ventura Morales, the Intendant of the Province of Louisiana, and Gilbert Leonard, the Treasurer of said Province, sixty thousand arpens of land, &c., all of which more fully appears from the annexed certificate, signed by the said Morales, Leonard and Carsetano Valdes, secretary of the Intendant, acknowledging the Receipt of the consideration and the sale…
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