Mr Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.
On the 15th of September 1817, Antonio Huertas, an inhabitant of East Florida, petitioned the governor of that province for fifteen thousand acres of land; on which the following decree was made.
"In attention to what this petitioner represents, and whereas
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