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1 City of Carondelet vs. the United States 1875

handle is hein.trials/adej0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U. S. COURT OF CLAIMS. THE CITY OF CARONDELET) THE UNITED STATES. ) Th the Court of Clain.s. Your petitioner, the City of Carondelet of the State or Missouri, respectfully sh'ws, that a tra(!t of land, situated in the County of St. Louis, within said state, known as the Commons of Carondelet, and shown in the copy of the official survey, herewith filed, marked C, was granted by the Spanish government to the inhabitants of the vil- lage of Carondelet, and the government of the United States, as part of the consideration for the cession of the territory in which this land lies, by the government of France, stipulated in the 3d article of the treaty of 1803 that the inhabitants shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and in the religion which they profess. That, in pursuancc of said treaty s:ipulation, a series of acts have been passed by Congress to assure said in habitants in their lands, and among others the act enti- tied An act to make further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Missouri, approved1 June 13th, 1812, by the first section of which the Corn- mons of Carondelet were confirmed to the inhabitants of said village. And in order to determine the extent and boundaries of the tract so granted or confirmed, it was made the duty of the principal deputy surveyor for said territory to survey, or cause to be surveyed and marked, the out-boundary lines f said commons

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