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WebIn Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 29 it was held that Australia was Terra Nullius at the time of annexation and defined Australia. Leading up to 9 July 1840, Governor George Gipps pored over papers relating to the law of recognition of indigenous rights to land. It is possible that the point may be dealt with by the High Court in Mabo v Queensland and Commonwealth, although the claim there does not depend on the conquered colony argument. Section 24, in effect, reaffirmed that New South Wales was a settled colony, but provided a later date of reception for reasons of convenience. 2 See Select Committee on the State of the Colony of New Zealand Report (1844) reproduced in Accounts and Papers [of the] House of Commons, 1844 (9) vol XIII, Irish University Press series of British Parliamentary Papers, Colonies: New Zealand pp 5ff; see J Fulcher, The Wik judgment, pastoral leases and Colonial Office Policy and intention in NSW in the 1840s Australian Journal of Legal History, vol 4, no 1 1998, 33-56 at 41. Parliament, and want to work more slowly towards a national treaty.9 Nevertheless, Victoria and South Australia have started consultation towards provincial treaties.10 Proposition 10 is the consequence: On this view, Mabo is only a step on the path to the establishment of that legal relationship. It is divided into two parts: the first part examines the difficulties of the natural law arguments in Mabo to deal with the sovereignty and land management issues that will not go away, and explores the origin and role of terra nullius in creating those difficulties. [51]GS Lester, Submission 468 (19 February 1985) argued that the only secure basis for asserting Aboriginal rights at common law is to accept that Australia was settled and to controvert the decision in the Nabalco case that the consequence of settlement was to vest all land (and associated rights) in the Crown. F$E-:# /Font << A similar distinction was made by the Senate Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs in its report on the feasibility of an Aboriginal treaty or Makarrata: It may be that a better and more honest appreciation of the facts relating to Aboriginal occupation at the time of settlement, and of the Eurocentric view taken by the occupying powers, could lead to the conclusion that sovereignty inhered in the Aboriginal peoples at that time. 63 0 obj <> endobj >> Some features of this site may not work without it. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. See also Logan Jack (1921), and cf para 39. The difference of course has been that where there were treaties a modern clawing-back has taken place to re-establish the honour of the Crown in Canada, America and New Zealand. He examined Chief Justice Marshalls famous American judgments on the subject, Storeys Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Kents Commentaries on American Law and various Colonial Office documents relating to an attempt by William Wentworth to purchase land from Maori people directly and without the involvement of the Crown.1 The 9 July proceedings centred on the Claims to Grants of Land in New Zealand Bill, which was designed to render null and void Wentworth and others purported purchase of Maori land. 0000063550 00000 n 0000003584 00000 n What underlies those proposals, and the Commissions general approach, is an acknowledgment of the present realities, and the present needs, of the Aboriginal people of Australia. 17 0 obj 6 Cited in Mabo no 2 at 34-35. The Crowns title, through settlement (or to put it another way, through the occupancy of British settlers) gave them the status of first taker in the eyes of the Supreme Court of NSW: in a newly-discovered country, settled by British subjects, the occupancy of the Crown is no fiction Here is a property, depending for its support on no feudal notions or principle., But this case must not be wrenched from its historical context. 0000065632 00000 n It has maintained its pre-eminence as one of the most important journals of its kind encompassing Human Rights and European Law. Director : Stuart Heisler Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled Run time : 1 hour and 30 minutes Release date : February 6, 2018 Actors : Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea Subtitles: : English Studio : Classicflix ASIN : B076DR791M Number of discs : 1 But, we shall see in part 2, these cases were all to attack or defend the Crowns prerogative against settlers pushing the envelope to narrow that prerogative so as to enlarge individual rights in a colony far from the centre of British metropolitical power. It will examine these further three propositions: 1 Ulla Secher The doctrine of tenure in Australia post-Mabo: Replacing the feudal fiction with the mere radical title fiction Part 2 (2006) 13 Australian Property Law Journal 140, 2 Coe v Commonwealth (1979) 53 ALJR 403; Mabo v State of Queensland (no 2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 at 31, 3 A Fitzmaurice The Genealogy of Terra Nullius (2007) 129 Australian Historical Studies at 7 quoting Francesco de Vitoria, 5 In re Southern Rhodesia, [1919] AC at 232, 6 Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara, [1975] ICJR at 39, 7 M Connor, The Invention of Terra Nullius: historical and legal fictions on the foundations of Australia Sydney: Maclaey Press 2005. There was no other way of dealing with them, than that of keeping them separate, subordinate and dependent, with a guardian care thrown around them for their protection. The original Indian nations, despite being acknowledged by the discoverers as the proprietors of the soil, had no power of alienation except to the governing power of the discoverers. It is necessary to distinguish three separate issue s. The first is the acquisition of sovereignty by the British Crown over Australia as a matter of international law (and the international consequences for the Aboriginal inhabitants). Professor Bruce Kercher, An Unruly Child, A History of Law in Australia, 1994 >> %PDF-1.4 % 0000003030 00000 n After the Uluru Statement of the Heart, the Commonwealths recognition of Aboriginal sovereignty is also now under the spotlight. This paper seeks briefly to survey some of the voluminous literature on these related topics. The Commissions Work on the Reference, Special Needs for Consultation and Discussion, 3. However it is desirable to deal with the issue at the general level at which it is raised. 876 0000001216 00000 n 4 & 5 Win IV c95 s 1; and see Acts Interpretation Act 1915 (SA) s 48. In those of the latter kind, the colony already having law of its own, that law remains in force until altered.[28]. [27]Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) vol 1, 107. Jonathan applies his extensive projects, resources, native title and cultural heritage experience to mining, oil and gas transactions, renewable energy, infrastructure developments, joint venture arrangements, and asset and share sales and acquisitions across Australia and internationally. The difference between the laws of the two kinds of colony is that in those of the former kind all the English laws which are applicable to the colony are immediately in force there upon its foundation. Young Sheldon) je americk komedilny seril stanice CBS vytvoren Chuckom Lorreom a Stevenom Molarom.Seril, odohrvajci sa koncom 80. a zaiatkom 90. rokov 20. storoia, je spin-off Prequelom sitkomu Teria vekho tresku a predstavuje postavu Sheldona Coopera v jeho deviatich rokoch, ktor ije so svojou rodinou vo 140 0 obj <> endobj [48] Certainly the process of conquest by attrition took much longer than the acquisition of the territory of Australia as a matter of international law.[49]. To justify the acquisition of land in Australia, the British combined the common law notion of settlement (from Blackstone), an argument of indigenous rights to land where the indigenous people were in actual occupation, and a scale of civilisation framework borrowed from both the Lockean idea of property rights being generated from labour mixing with the soil and the Scottish moral philosophers four stages of civilisation (Hunter-gatherers, Agriculture, Mercantilism and Industrialisation). If we do not, the Australian legal system will continue to rest on a dubious basis of either fraud or a mistake of fact. Peter O'Grady trading as Legal Helpdesk Lawyers ABN 93 775 540 127 | Shop K2, Bridgepoint Shopping Centre, 1-3 Brady Street, Mosman NSW 2088 [25]See para 66 for statements of this view. M@cB2Z9#69%B?&seJs9:C$E3 /Type /Page And proposition 7 can be stated because it demonstrates just how flimsy the legal basis established in Cooper v Stuart was to justify the denial of indigenous rights to land. endobj << [54] But such a presumption is hardly needed. The contrary view was expressed, for example, by Justice H Zelling, Submission 369 (26 January 1983) 1, on the grounds that the settled colony rule was established practice for other colonies with indigenous inhabitants, and that it was in any event established, for South Australia at least, by statute (4 & 5 Wm IV c95), not merely by judicial decision. John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, n le 5 aot 1869 dans le comt de Nelson et mort le 9 janvier 1940 Louisville, est un homme politique amricain du Parti dmocrate . This law effectively stopped anyone Web1889 case of Cooper v Stuart (Cooper),6 albeit in bald dictum, was accepted as binding. Milirrpum v Nabalco at 202, 7 Examples include S. Breanna et al, Treaty; M Mansell Treaty and Statehood: Aboriginal Self-Determination, Leichhardt, NSW: Federation Press 2016. The case took the form of a Crown information against the defendant landholder Brown for intruding into the coal seams and trespassing on the Crowns rights to the coal in the soil. >> The Commission has received several submissions arguing that the settled colony notion should be rejected in the strongest terms as an initial step in its inquiry. %PDF-1.6 % We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. l @ *R(r34Pb2h\0FVBw 0000036242 00000 n Difficulties of Application: The Status and Scope of the Interrogation Rules, 23. 67. The commentary ends by discussing a Makarrata Commission as proposed by the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Cooper v Stuart (1899) Held that the land was unoccupied upon discovery and so it was settled. By this means the Australian colonies directly inherited a vast body of English statute and common law. 0000006169 00000 n 0000000016 00000 n /Length 13 0 R For differing views on the question of classification see GS Lester, Inuit Territorial Rights in the Canadian Northwest Territories, Tungavik Federation of Nunavut, Ottawa, 1984, esp 37-41, a summary statement of the arguments developed by the same writer in The Territorial Rights of the Inuit of the Canadian Northwest Territories: A Legal Argument, Ph D Thesis, York University, 2 vols, 1981; and MJ Detmold, The Australian Commonwealth, Law Book Co, Sydney, 1985, ch 4. of 10% of the land fund being devoted to Aboriginal welfare. See para 37, 203. Cambridge Journals publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide range of subject areas, in print and online. /Type /Page Module 4: Arrival and Reception of English Law in Colonial Australia /F1 8 0 R The Privy Council eventually held that the reservation was valid, but they first had to decide whether the laws of England operated in the colony at the time of the grant. /Filter /LZWDecode WebStudy with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Influence on Aus., Arrival of CL in Australia, British understanding of civilisation and more. Aboriginal Traditional Marriage: Areas for Recognition, Functional Recognition of Traditional Marriage, Legitimacy of Children, Adoption and Related Issues, Questions of Maintenance and Property Distribution, Spousal Compellability in the Law of Evidence, 15. As Hannah Robert has shown, the story is more complex and the central problem is how occupancy as a concept played out. 9 http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/news/2017/06/symbolic-constitutional-recognition-table-after-uluru-talks- indigenous-leaders-say ; see also M. Davis, Political Timetables Trump Workable Timetables: Indigenous Constitutional Recognition and the Temptation of Symbolism over Substance in S Young, J. Nielsen, J. Patrick (ed) Constitutional Recognition of Australias First Peoples Theories and Comparative Perspectives, Leichhardt, NSW: Federation Press 2016; speech at University of Queensland, 20 April 2018. The Proof of Aboriginal Customary Laws, Proof of Customary Laws: The Overseas Experience, Proof of Aboriginal Customary Laws: The Australian Experience, Methods of Proving Aboriginal Customary Laws, 26. The Distinction Between Settled and Conquered Colonies. WebON 3 APRIL 1889, the Privy Council delivered Cooper v Stuart [1889] UKPC 1 (03 April 1889).. As part of an imagined Makarrata Commission, a Research Partnership is established to support future truth-telling. As Kents Commentaries pronounced, [t]he peculiar character and habits of the Indian nations, rendered them incapable of sustaining any other relation with the whites than that of dependence and pupillage. 0000002143 00000 n [35]Additional Instructions for Lt James Cook, appointed to command His Majestys Bark Endeavour, 30 July 1768, in JM Bennett & AC Castles, A Source Book of Australian Legal History, Law Book Co, Sydney, 1979, 253-4. 4 0 obj 6jJckD~"zv,%WZ[ZEIE)JMeo;[37njq7 wqoG erqB@JMx;lz~. Whatever may have been the injustice of this encroachment, there is no reason to suppose that either justice or humanity would now be consulted by receding from it.[34]. hb```f``Uf`c`` @Q(@mPV1=i"OE/GOG(A. European colonists could not acquire land from indigenous peoples, only the Crown could effect that; Discovery gave title to the Crown, subject only to the fact that the indigenous inhabitants were admitted to possess a present right of occupancy, or use in the soil, which was subordinate to the ultimate dominion of the discoverer. As Chief Justice Marshall had noted, [i]t has never been doubted, that either the United States, or the several States, had a clear title to all the lands within the boundary lines described in the treaty [with Great Britain after independence was won], subject only to the Indian right of occupancy, and that the exclusive power to extinguish that right was vested in that government. It asserts that treaty-making between the Commonwealth, the States and indigenous Australians has a legal justification. It does involve the concession that justice has been denied to the Aboriginal people through a fundamental misconception of fact from which legal consequences have followed. But the Maori experience suggests that such recognition would have been grudging and temporary. 0000001065 00000 n He is skilled in the art of negotiation, mediation and the resolution of disputes in relation to resources and energy projects. 15 John Lilburnes treason trial [1649] Quoted in Stuart Banner, When 24 Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, 291. In passing their Lordships referred to NSW as a Colony which consisted of a tract of territory practically unoccupied, without settled inhabitants or settled law, at the time when it was peacefully annexed to the British dominions. In this sense the comment was more akin to obiter than a ratio. (1979) 24 ALR 118 (Full Court). WebCooper, the successor in title to the original grantee, argued that this condition was invalid as it did not align with the law against perpetuities. 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The Botany Bay Medallion First Fleet /Filter /LZWDecode Aboriginal Customary Laws: Aboriginal Child Custody, Fostering and Adoption, Questions of Principle and Implementation, Federal, State and Territory Forums for Issues of Aboriginal Child Custody, Recognition of Customary or De Facto Adoption, Social Security and the Care and Custody of Aboriginal Children, 17. ON 3 APRIL 1889, the Privy Council delivered Cooper v Stuart [1889] UKPC 1 (03 April 1889). This became known as the enlarged notion of terra nullius, a process that Brennan J explained in Mabo (No 2) as resulting in the parcel by parcel dispossession of First Nations which underwrote the development of the nation. Community Wardens and other Forms of Self-Policing, Policing Aboriginal Communities: Conclusions, 33. There are no files associated with this item. ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS A Comparative Assessment Aboriginal Customary Laws and Substantive Criminal Liability, Criminal Law Defences and Aboriginal Customary Laws, Intoxication and Diminished Responsibility, Conclusion: Intent and Criminal Law Defences, Aboriginal Customary Law as a Ground of Criminal Liability, 21. a Q;AO.0@.t;h*() B` 2,8fd/^rq?1 H #x9230:C GDpqs7>ao"'2BSUmA7#h2KrD* This is summed up by proposition 8: In Canada and America, the domestic dependent nation status of indigenous peoples produced perhaps no less injustice than in the south. /Resources << Web8 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (first published 176569, a facsimile of the 1st ed, 1979) vol 1, 1045; Emmerich de Vattel, The Law of Nations Mabo/Cooper V Stuart /Parent 5 0 R TOPIC 2: HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN LAW Flashcards | Quizlet mqF-iX=x&h0xT(n\Al |(J")Jb /01N@C4004jX;Ph P@8Hs)zNr\,\SX9oX3EjhJ Current student The Privy Council, in obiter, noted New South Wales was, as a tract of territory, practically unoccupied, without settled inhabitants or settled land, at the time when it was peacefully annexed to the British dominions. See eg the discussion of initial European contact in Cape York in R Logan Jack, See I Hookey, Settlement and Sovereignty in P Hanks and B Keon-Cohen (eds). Aboriginal Hunting, Fishing and Gathering Rights: Current Australian Legislation, Legislation on Hunting and Gathering Rights, Access to Land for Hunting and Gathering: The Present Position, Miscellaneous Restrictions Under Australian Legislation, Australian Legislation on Hunting, Fishing and Gathering: An Overview, 36. WebCooper v. Aaron. 185 0 obj <>stream endobj But it is doubtful whether they were organised under `chiefs competent to represent them. XCIC3MRM!t,k*8j7#`4 c`# 7A 0@ G(pKrox)mFYz.E\R|1 /L`:b2``l&A3F&>i9lg0k 'tNeNgv]ILjiuNLMCEE$tngx?:rs$N&4?{lW~Bb)+j'UOX#_f!~:Nc{LkjFei?`~24?'3%zH. Aboriginal Customary Laws and Anglo-Australian Law After 1788, Protest and Reform in the 1920s and 1930s, 6. Although the Privy Council referred in Cooper v Stuart to peaceful annexation, the aborigines did not give up their lands peacefully: they were killed This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. He was Lord Advocate , the most senior Law /Contents 12 0 R It was applied in the Australian colonies and in New Zealand, regardless of the existence of treaties (be it Batman or Waitangi). 65 The Australian Courts Act 1828 (Imp) s 24. South Australia was not founded until 1836, and the relevant date of reception is 28 December 1836. The English, citing Locke, inverted it: those who mixed their labour with the soil and with things available in nature were entitled to a first claim to property rights in those things, a sort of first taker as first fashioner.4. It was the only journal which offered the reader coverage of comparative law as well as public and private international law. [49]See para 29, 34, and cf J von Sturmer, Submission 403 (March 1984) 10. 0000005450 00000 n Likewise, the history of land law in Australia is one of difficulty in establishing exactly how the Crown in right of the States establishes a legal relationship to land such that it exercises lawfully its right to grant, demise or dispose of land. The Western Saharan tribes, it held, were socially and politically organised under chiefs competent to represent them (para 80, & cf para 149). Despite the Treaty of Waitangi, this idea of actual occupation coupled with the labour theory of property was applied not just by British settlers but by the Crown in New Zealand as well as Australia (where no treaties were made by the Crown). In practice, difficulties such as those encountered in Milirrpums case would be encountered, given the enormous changes in Aboriginal societies and traditions since settlement. Lawyer Monthly is a news website and monthly legal publication with content that is entirely defined by the significant legal news from around the world. The case, Cooper v Stuart , had nothing to do with the rights of Aboriginal people in New South Wales. These two results from the different understandings of terra nullius fought for supremacy in the 19th century. 0000002631 00000 n Argued September 11, 1958. 0000001908 00000 n THE RECEPTION OF LAND LAW INTO THE AUSTRALIAN The question is whether and how those laws and traditions, as they now exist, should be recognised. 0000005562 00000 n Andrew Fitzmaurice has very usefully explained the origins of terra nullius in the Roman law idea of the first taker. The Governor of the colony, before 1824, had made a land grant that 13. Along Came Jones to receive all of the latest news from the world of Law. The consequence of the settlement doctrine producing a justification of Crown full ownership of most of the land in Australia in this way is, as Mick Dodson has pointed out, that the sovereign pillars of the Australian state are arguably, at the very least, a little legally shaky.5 Neither conquest, cession nor settlement provides a proper legal basis for the establishment of the Crowns legal relationship to property in land. [36] Subsequent extensions of British rule were made: on the assumption that the entire continent was to be acquired through settlement and not conquest. Australia's Legal History and Colonial Legacy % JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Aboriginal Societies: The Experience of Contact, Changing Policies Towards Aboriginal People, Impacts of Settlement on Aboriginal People, 4. Thus British law was applied in the colony from the first. He attended and graduated from Brown University Program In Medicine in 1978, having over 45 years of diverse experience, especially in Neurology. The Select Committee of the House of Commons on Aborigines stated in 1837: The land has been taken from them without the assertion of any other title than that of superior force and by the commission under which the Australian colonies are governed, Her Majestys Sovereignty over the whole of New South Wales is asserted without reserve. [26] The general principles for the introduction of English law into a settled as distinct from a conquered colony were laid down by Blackstone in 1765. @&fI@DQQg'jk[;y`}8$L &9kf{w _8zoZ3qh#M/F|xrgc"cLf|1H" It is hardly necessary to say that the question is not how the manner in which Australia became a British possession might appropriately be described. 0000000987 00000 n q\6 0000005359 00000 n It is possible that the point may be dealt with by the High Court in. Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the law, Synot, E; de Silva-Wijeyeratne, R, Commentary: Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286, Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making, 2021, 1. They were simply not relevant to the parties to the proceedings in the two cases. << It continues to offer practitioners and academics wide topical coverage without compromising rigorous editorial standards. WebThe Old Privy Council decision in Cooper V Stuart [1889] was based on the factual errors that Australia was peacefully settled and that Aborigines were never in possession of the land. C. W. Beckham en 1915. Rather than rewriting the judgment, the authors provide a commentary on the social history of the case and its impact on Australian constitutionalism. 0000020370 00000 n Cooks secret instructions had provided that he should acquire territory with the consent of the Natives. cXDNc8>-D 0APP9d%Hl$#=JJ*%%Z$a (b` 0000036526 00000 n [39]4 & 5 Win IV c95 s 1; and see Acts Interpretation Act 1915 (SA) s 48. Cooper. This is particularly the case with respect to the recognition of Aboriginal laws and traditions, which are now in many respects different from those the European settlers saw, but only dimly comprehended. The Settled/Conquered Colony Debate. %%EOF It was not a question justiciable in a court deriving its power from the Commonwealth Constitution, whose authority derives from that very sovereignty.2. 0000003422 00000 n >> 1 Votes and Proceedings of the NSW Legislative Council, no 13, 9 July 1840. J. C. W. Beckham 81 0 obj<>stream @x @L#&JfA /hWj|]e_+-7 A Legal Justification for a Treaty between Australia and Its Indigenous Peoples, Enter the World of Tech Start-Ups and Investments in Turkey, French and International Property and Tax Matters in 2023. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the elders past, present and emerging. Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286 Show simple item record Cooper v Stuart (1889) 14 App Cas 286 Files in this item This item appears in the following Collection (s) Book chapters Contains book chapters authored Special Protection for Aboriginal Suspects? [44]cf G Blainey, Triumph of the Nomads, rev edn, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1983, 67-83, and see further para 883-7. Despite Several propositions derived from the literature can be baldly stated, and then examined more closely. Mlad Sheldon Wikipdia h|y TSwbLuhEjqR(2( (1979) 24 ALR 118 (Full Court). Legal and Moral Issues. The South Australian Colonization Commissioners followed this up with instructions to the Protector of Aborigines, narrowing the legal meaning of Aboriginal rights in land to cover only lands used for cultivation, fixed residence or funereal purposes.4 Land not actually occupied by Aboriginal people was beneficially owned by the Crown. biXDN>[ 57h$%42TPd0vX:{ ~4an``)Tpv%qX;V0]`pVVP1(X"y5 X} 7b /F2 14 0 R 0000006318 00000 n As the Privy Council pointed out in passing in Cooper v Stuart, New South Wales had been regarded as a tract of territory, practically unoccupied, without settled inhabitants or settled land, at the time when it was peacefully annexed to the British dominions. In particular, they are not a sovereign entity under our present law so that they can enter into a treaty with the Commonwealth. Many of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive bodies of research available today. On the process of classification see further E Evatt, The Acquisition of Territory in Australia and New Zealand, in CH Alexandrowicz (ed) Grotius Society Papers 1968, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1970, 16; B Hocking, Aboriginal Land Rights: War and Theft (1982) 20 (9) Australian Law News 22, Castles, 20-31. ,)bL $Oy %yLAFX%*0S~mPwmdRi_~?V-y*='L8Q [54]But see para 109 for difficulties with compensation in this context. Without it, Australia cannot claim to be a post-colonial landscape. Full case name. To a considerable extent this reassessment or reevaluation of the processes of British acquisition of Australia is an aspect of the moral and political debate over past and present relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. The Tribunal cannot conduct negotiations. The Privy Councils explanation, which rested on NSW being a tract of territory practically unoccupied, without settled inhabitants or settled law, stood as the legal authority for Australian nationhood for over a century. The Governor of the colony, before 1824, had made a land grant that was subject to a reservation that the government could reacquire, at any time, a portion of the land that might be needed for public purposes.

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