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Show Re ment, the principles of equity, and the decisions of the supreme They have not desired the tribunals to conduct their as they are applicable. investigations as if the rights of the inhabitants to the property which they claim depended upon the nicest observance of every legal formality. They have desired to act as a great nation, not seeking, in extending their authority and protection afford to but forfeitures, enforce over the ceded country, to security to all just rights which could have been claimed from the government y they superseded.’’ Thirteen years after the decision of the above case, the supreme court of aoe oo e en ee eter inf e ae oe er eee t rere eer Set tee et a etd Geert f : OY} 0} SopRsofoq 9puBi.r rp Aq oY TeuUyY syuoWIUIBAOH FO VY peu UOTLVUIUTIOJOP 9 ; + YIU]; 49 [VUOT}VN ose ree a) Re a a ' * aa a =o @ at me INS EE FS of the former govern treaty, the law of nations, the laws, usages, and customs court 80 far ip PSA it in @ NE discharge ee or to ee a Ne PP A territory, etd 2 ceded have directed their tribunals, jn passing to be governed by the stipulations of the ee 8 2 Fee oe ks ek Pe. Pad ekg, ed Oe, Msap, A IE FD Bi eeea of the ® ee of the inhabitants narrow or illiberal manner. They upon the rights of the inhabitants, + ee property 3 WOTt 3OILIT In the same volume of interest than the right administration of justice.’? reports at page 368, United States v. Auguisola, it is said that ‘<The United States have never sought by their legislation to evade the obligation devolved upon them by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to protect the rights of 6 it, to guard carefully against claims originating in fraud, it is equally their duty to see that no rightful claim is rejected. No nation can have any higher \ private ‘OITXE of OUM rights = the FO impair did -a1d cession Saqv}g That 10JVM Hidalgo. PUB Guadalupe They were consecrated by the law of nations, and protected by the property. A right of any validity before the cession was equally valid aftertreaty. ward, and while it is the duty of the court in the cases which may come before Se of . not of these lands SJYCII grants IXOT liberal c to make oO government, UL of the Mexican 94} afterward Since this country to those who would engage to colonize or settle upon them. which has become a part of the United States, these extensive rancho grants, valuable estates. very and large then had little value, have now become very They have been denounced as ‘enormous monopolies, princedoms,’ etc., and this court have been urged to deny to the grantees what is assumed the former This rhetoric might have governments have too liberally and lavishly granted. a just influence when urged to those who have a right to give or refuse, but the United States have bound themselves by a treaty to acknowledge and protect all bona fide titles granted by the previous government, and this court have no discretion to enlarge or curtail such grants to suit our own sense of propriety, or defeat just claims, however extensive, by stringent rules of construction, to which they were not originally subjected.’’ In U. 8. Supreme Court Reports, Wallace, 404, United States v. Moreno, decided in 1863, the court announced that ‘‘These two sovereignties [Spain and Mexico] are the spring heads of all the land titles in California, existing at the time of the cession of that country to the United States by the treaty OIy v. Suther376 U. S. Supreme Court Reports, 19 Howard, 364, United States “Tn In its opinion the court declared: This case was decided in 1856. land. Mexican and Spanish the under made construeing grants of land in California, the policy authorities, we must take into view the state of the country and The population of California, before its transfer to the of the government. posts and military few a of United States, was very sparse, consisting chiefly The millions of acres of land around them, with some inconsiderable villages. the exception of a mission or a rancho on some favored spot, were uninhabited It was the interest and policy of the king of Spain, and and uncultivated. oATye}UOsSeIdoy and a the supreme court of the United States for determination long line of decisions emanated from that tribunal, declaring the on right of the holders of Mexican titles to protection and recogniti deand ng interesti are decisions early These nt. governme by the serve mention in the history of the time.*” Pee Wakes ee te ten. ee hele a eS on tees Te NNN HISTORY eee MEXICAN NEW ce OF FACTS ae PO FS per reer ee Pere ee * Pe Ps LEADING SS0.1ISu0o h. ) 456 eC |