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Show Important Laud Decision. Washington, 3. Judge Humphreys, justice of the supreme court for the District of Columbia, to day disposed of the petition for a rule on the com-iniasiouer com-iniasiouer of the general land office to show cause why a mandamus should not be issued to compel him to review re-view on appeal, the case of Colonel William Craig, to whom the register and receiver of the land office in Colorado Col-orado had adjudged a tract, of land being part of the Las Animas grant under tha act of congress of the 24th of February, 1869, and containing 73,521 acres. Colonel Crig from the beginning maintained that the decision deci-sion ol the register and receiver was final and conclusive and from which there was no appeal. ThiB principle the judge emphatically confirmed, holding that the judicial authority could not interfere with the executive department of the government in the exercise of its administrative or executive exec-utive functions. |