This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...and that the laws of Illinois made the land office certificate, a competent title, and governed the case. The opinion discussing these and a number of other collateral questions, is an interesting one. It is apparent that the Court deemed the questions important ones, and designed to lay down a precedent which should settle the mooted questions. It is, too, an able opinion, citing copious authorities, and reasoning out its conclusions with aehain of specious, if not sound logic. The case was then removed to the Supreme Court of the U. S. by writ oerror, where it was again elaborately argue at the January term of 1839, and the opinion of the supreme court reversing the State Supreme Court was delivered by'Justice Barbour, and is reported in 13 Peters' Reports 497. it held that the receipt and certificate of entry by the local land officers were void, as made upon a subject, over which they had no jurisdiction, since the land was _a part of It military reservation, which, though sometimes left unoccupied, had been made by ' competent authority, and could not be deemed abandoned when left unoccupied by stress of military events; and finally that the laws of Illinois had no application to the case; that it was solely governed by the laws of the United States. No more thorough overthrow of the logic of a State Court was ever made by the Federal Court. The case well illustrates the conflict which local and general views produce, even in the highest tribunals, serving different jurisdictions. While these proceedings were in progress in the courts, an effort was made in 1838 to establish the claim in Congress. Testimony was submitted, and the merits of Mr. Beanhean as a settler and friend of the government in its relations with the Indians, ...