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September 8, 1846.—Petition to confirm a Spanish grant under the act of 1824 (4 Stat. 52), determined in the District Court of Arkansas, before the Hon. Benjamin Johnson, district judge.

S. Janin and S. L. Johnson, for petitioners.

S. H. Hempstead, district attorney, for the United States.  JOHNSON, J., held, that as this petition was to confirm the grant to the Baron de Bastrop, lying principally, as it appeared from the record, in the State of Louisiana, the court there was the proper tribunal to entertain jurisdiction over the claim, and that this court should not do so; and that the objection to the jurisdiction of this court urged by the district attorney was well taken, and that the petition ought to be dismissed.

Petition dismissed.