The Schools v. Risley
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, the case being this: The city óf St. Louis, as is known, is situated on the west . side of the Mississippi Eiver. and faces the stream. It was 'formed by the'French and Spanish in times as early 'as 1764; and passed to the sovereignty of the United States by the cession which France made December 20, 1803,- of the large region then known as the province of Louisiana.
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Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, the case being this: The city óf St. Louis, as is known, is situated on the west . side of the Mississippi Eiver. and faces the stream. It was 'formed by the'French and Spanish in times as early 'as 1764; and passed to the sovereignty of the United States by the cession which France made December 20, 1803,- of the large region then known as the province of Louisiana. Frencli subjects being already in possession of various rights throughout the town, Congress by statute of 1812 enacted that ^ the rights, titles and claims to those town ór…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Possession of the colony or province of Louisiana, ceded by France to the United States under the treaty of cession of the thirtieth of April, 1808, was formally delivered to the United States on the twentieth of December of that year; and on the thirteenth of June, 1812, Congress passed the act making further provision for settling the claims to laud in the Territory of Missouri, the first section of which provides to the effect that the rights, titles and claims to town or village lots, out-lots, common field lots and commons in, adjoining and belonging to the several towns or villages…
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