United States v. Morrison
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which, involve the construction of provisions in Federal statutes relating to sections 16 and 36 granted to the State of Oregon, are stated in the opinion. The grant was a grant in prœsenti. Ham v. Missouri, 18 How. 126; Beecher v. Wetherby, 95 U. S. 517; United States v. Thomas, 151 U. S. 577, 583; Alabama v. Schmidt, 232 U. S. 168; United States v. Tully, 140 Fed.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which, involve the construction of provisions in Federal statutes relating to sections 16 and 36 granted to the State of Oregon, are stated in the opinion. The grant was a grant in prœsenti. Ham v. Missouri, 18 How. 126; Beecher v. Wetherby, 95 U. S. 517; United States v. Thomas, 151 U. S. 577, 583; Alabama v. Schmidt, 232 U. S. 168; United States v. Tully, 140 Fed. Rep. 904; Heydenfeldt v. Daney, 93 U. S. 634; Minnesota v. Hitchcock, 185 U. S. 373; Wisconsin v. Hitchcock, 201 U. S. 202; St. Paul v. Northern Pacific,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
The United States brought this suit to quiet title to lands in section 16, township 3 south, range 6 east, Willamette Meridian, Oregon. By the Act of February 14, 1859 (c. 33, 11 Stat. 383), for the admission of Oregon into the- Union, it- was provided (§ 4):
“That the following propositions be, and the same are hereby, offered to the said people of Oregon for their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted, shall be obligatory on the United States and upon the said State of Oregon, to wit: First, That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in every township of public lands in said…
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