Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case comes on upon two questions, certified by the Circuit Court for the District of Ohio, in which the Judges of that Court were divided in opinion. The following is stated as the case on which the question arose:
"The plaintiff's claim is founded on an entry dated the 17th of February, 1817, surveyed the 19th of February, 1817, and on a patent founded thereon, dated the 18th of July, 1818...
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