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Show SpntiiNh Lund Jruiit Coii-llriuetl. Coii-llriuetl. Washington, 11. Attorney-General Pierrepont has decided that the act of congress, of April 27th, 1816, confirmed to llugh and John Maxwell Max-well a land grantof 9,000 acres at tho forks o I the lilaekj river, Missouri, made to Friest Maxwell, in 1799, by the Spanish government. This large tract of land, situated in Reynolds and Iron counties, Mo., is therefore duelarciid to belong to the claimants represented here by Warwick Ticn-steil. |