The CHIEF JUSTICE, having stated the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
When Warren and Van Brunt made their settlement upon the lands, in 1853, they acquired no right of pre-emption, as the act of Congress then in force only gave that right to settlers upon lands in the then Territory of Minnesota which
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