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United States, Appellants v. Don Fernando de la Maza Arredondo and others, Appellees, The 691 (1832)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0133 and id is 1 raw text is: JANUARY TERM 1832. TilE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS V. DON FERNANDO DE LA MAZA ARREDONDO AND OTHERS, APPELLEES. The grant of the king of Spain to F. A,. Arredondo and son, for land at Alachua in Florida, gafe a valid title to these claimants under the grant, according to the stipulations of the treaty between the United States and Spain of 1819, tire laws of nations, of the United States, and of Spain. Con.tiuction of the treaty with Spdin of 1819, relative to grants of lands in the territory of Florida; and of tire several acts of congress, passed for the adjust- ment of private claims to land within that territory. THIS was an appeal from the superior court of the eastert district of Florida. On the 11th day of November 1828, Fernando de la Maza Arredondo and son, and others, their grantees, filed their peti- tion in the superior court of the eastern district of Florida, against the United States, under the provision of the sixth sec- tion of an act of congress passed May 23, 1828, entitled an act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settle- ment and confirmation of private land claims in Florida. The petition stated, that the petitioners claimed title to an undivided parcel of land, coiitaining two hundred and eighty- nine thousand six hundred and forty-five acres, situated in the county of Alachua, in the eastern district of Florida, about thirty-six miles west of the river St Johns, and about fifty-two miles west of the city of St Augustine; which land extends four leagues to the east point of the compass in a rectilinear figure, taking as the centre thereof.a place called Alachua, formerly inhabited by a tribe of Seminole Indians, but subse- quently abandoned by them: that the said tract of land was granted by the Spanish government, with all the formalities and solemnities used by it in such cases, to the petitioners, on the 22d day of December 1817, the said grant having been executed at Havana, in the island of Cuba, by Don Alexander Ramirez, intendant of the army, superintendent general, and subdelegate of the royal exchequer of the island of Cuba, and the two Floridas, &c. &c. by and with the advice and appro- bation of the surveyor general of the two Floridas, and of the minister fiscal, the king of Spain's attorney general. A trans-

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