Supreme Court of the United States July 1, 1876 (McKee v. United States)

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Mr. Justice Miller

delivered the opinion of the court.

The claim of the State of Virginia to dominion over that region of country called the territory northwest of the Ohio Eiver, which is now filled with a population of many millions and divided into five States of the Union, was not undisputed in the days when that State was a province of Great Britain.