In Re the Claim of the Estate of General Washington Against the United States, for 3051 Acres of Land Wrongfully Granted by It to Other Parties: Argument Before the Committee of Public Lands as to the Form and Substance of the Relief Proper to Be Granted
In Re the Claim of the Estate of General Washington Against the United States, for 3051 Acres of Land Wrongfully Granted by It to Other Parties: Argument Before the Committee of Public Lands as to the Form and Substance of the Relief Proper to Be Granted
Excerpt from In Re the Claim of the Estate of General Washington Against the United States, for 3051 Acres of Land Wrongfully Granted by It to Other Parties: Argument Before the Committee of Public Lands as to the Form and Substance of the Relief Proper to Be Granted by Bill to Be Repealed All the matters set forth in the printed records and arguments furnished the committee are true. They occurred at a time when the owing of this claim was not contemplated. First. At the close of the Revolutionary war, Gen eral ...
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Excerpt from In Re the Claim of the Estate of General Washington Against the United States, for 3051 Acres of Land Wrongfully Granted by It to Other Parties: Argument Before the Committee of Public Lands as to the Form and Substance of the Relief Proper to Be Granted by Bill to Be Repealed All the matters set forth in the printed records and arguments furnished the committee are true. They occurred at a time when the owing of this claim was not contemplated. First. At the close of the Revolutionary war, Gen eral Washington was the owner of two land warrants, one for 3000 acres and another for 100 acres, both of which were, by their terms, locatable on the lands of Virginia northwest of the Ohio river. The 3000-acre warrant was issued to Capt. John Rootes, of Virginia, in 1763, for services in the French and Indian war, by Lord Dunmore. General Washington purchased this warrant on the fourteenth of February, 1774, and took an assignment of it. He held it till December 3, 1784, when he requested the General Assembly Of the State of Virginia to issue him a continental warrant for it, which that body didby joint resolution; and a new warrant to him as as signee was issued by the Virginia land office February 14, 1785. The General Assembly Of the State of Virginia, in its cession of the Northwest Territory to the United States in October, 1783, reserved the right to designate the beneficiaries of the Virginia Military Reservation, byg General laws or Specific resolutions, and took that course in regard to General Washing ton. That right of Virginia General Assembly has never been questioned, and it has been exercised by special resolution in cases too numerous to mention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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