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Title: Report on the agriculture and geology of Mississippi. Embracing a sketch of the social and natural history of the state
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Mississippi. State Geologist Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862
Subjects: Geology Agriculture Natural history
Publisher: (Jackson) E. Barksdale, State Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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the private sealwith the coat of arms of the governor, and are counter-signed by the secretary Andrez Lopes Armesto. (SeePlate II.) It has been objected that the extension of the limitsof West Florida, by the British government, to the Ya-zoo River, was an infringement of colonial charters orgrants previously made, and that the titles to land madein that portion of the State were necessarily void.Spain, also, in wresting by conquest from Great Britainthe same territory, not truly belonging to her, acquiredno title thereto to the prejudice of the previous andrightful holders; the Spanish grants, therefore, to thesame extent, were equally invalid. This position was subsequently affirmed by the deci-sion of the Supreme Court of the United States, and wasborne out and admitted, virtually, in the treaty of peacebetween the United States and Great Britain, fixing thesouthern boundary of the independent colonies alongthe thirty-first degree of north latitude; and by the -ee pape I 0 Plate II
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Farsuiiilies of si2iialuros and seals of ilie Spanish GOVERNORS 0^ LOUISIANA B I ( V<Mie<. irt »t) Stouf b* M (,.-tii).. LAND TITLES. 121 treaty of San Lorenzo, of the 27tli of October, 1795, bywhich Spain finally yielded possession of this territory,to the United States. The American government, however, with a paternalregard for the inhabitants occupying these lands, madeprovision for the confirmation, not only of the Spanishtitles, but those of Great Britain, so far as they had beenrecognized by the former government, and were dulyoccupied. The incomplete titles, or Spanish orders of survey, ifoccupied and cultivated at the date of the treaty, werealso to be confirmed under the character of donationsfrom the United States, when in fact the whole series,both of British or Spanish grants, of whatever grade,might so be regarded, being equally void or illegal, ex-cept so far as they were recognized by the act of Congressproviding for their

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