John Marshall,
United States v. Hernandez — Opinion of the Court
“ The ten thousand acres on both banks of the river St John's, are laid off in two surveys of five thousand acres each. One on the east side of the river, between Buffalo's Bluff and Mount Tucker, and the other on the west side of that river.These tracts appear to have been properly surveyed.The other survey for ten thousand acres, is laid down on the west side of Lake St George, and is divided into two parts, by a brook which discharges itself into the lake, and is in the decree named Salt Spring. In the certificate of the surveyor, it is called White Spring. ”
