 All the grants of land made before the 24th of January, 1818, by His Catholic Majesty or by his lawful authorities in the said Territories ceded by His Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,...  Papers - Page 130by British and American Joint Commission for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 808 pages
...United States, shall be ratif,ed and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the samo extent that the same grants would be valid if the...remained under the dominion of his catholic majesty.' " This article is apparently introduced on the part of Spain, and must be intended to stipulate expressly... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 832 pages
...authorities in the said territories ceded by his majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,...remained under the dominion of his Catholic majesty." (2 Pet. 308-9.) After the treaty from which I have quoted Congress proceeded to carry out the obligation... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 904 pages
...and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands, to the Siinic extent that the same granits would be valid if the territories had remained under the dominion of His Catholic Majesty." In support of this alleged grant from the King of Spain, defendant offered in evidence volume 3 of... | |
 | Joseph Schafer - Alaska - 1904 - 544 pages
...authorities, in the said territories ceded by His Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,...remained under the dominion of His Catholic Majesty. But the owners in possession of such lands, who, by reason of the recent circumstances of the Spanish... | |
 | Adelaide Louise Rouse - United States - 1904 - 514 pages
...authorities, in the said territories ceded by His Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,...remained under the dominion of His Catholic Majesty. But the owners in possession of such lands, who, by reason of the recent circumstances of the Spanish... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1905 - 484 pages
...authorities, in the said territories ceded by his majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,...remained under the dominion of his catholic majesty." The Court will not attempt to conceal the difficulty which is created by these articles. It is well... | |
 | Julius Klein - Guadaloupe Hidalgo, Treaty of - 1905 - 90 pages
...Mexico, and remaining for the future within the limits of the United States, shall be respected as valid, to the same extent that the same grants would be valid if the said territories had remained within the limits of Mexico. But the grantees of land in Texas * * *... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1912 - 682 pages
...authorities, in the said territories ceded by his Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,...remained under the dominion of his Catholic Majesty." Prior to the execution of this treaty, Congress had passed an act purporting to annul such grants,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1913 - 136 pages
...authorities, in the said territories ceded by His Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,...remained under the dominion of His Catholic Majesty. But the owners in possession of such lands, who, by reason of the recent circumstances of the Spanish... | |
 | John Wymond, Henry Plauché Dart - Louisiana - 1919 - 508 pages
...authorities in the said Territories ceded by His Majesty to the United States, shall be ratified and confirmed to the persons in possession of the lands,...remained under the Dominion of His Catholic Majesty. But the owners in possession of such lands, who by reason of the recent circumstances of the Spanish... | |
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