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- Title: Loftin Cotton, Plaintiff in Error v. the United States
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1850
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Mr. Crittenden. For the proper understanding of the points in the case, it is necessary to call the attention of the court to the act of the 2d of March, 1831 (4 Statutes at Large, 472), which was before it at the last term in the case of The United States v. Briggs, 9 Howard, 351, in which in was decided, that the cutting or procuring to be cut, removing or procuring to be removed, or aiding, or assisting, or being employed in the cutting of all descriptions of timber trees on the public lands, is an indictable offence under the said act, and punishable by fine and imprisonment.