Word: cession
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...decision of the court in Fleming vs. Page (9 Howard). The court said in regard to Tampica, a conquest by the United States: 'It was undoubtedly under the sovereign dominion of the United States.' But yet it was not a part of the Union. That the treaty of cession did not bring Porto Rico within our boundaries is clear from the wording of the treaty itself, and secondly, from the uniform construction put upon such treaties by Congress, and thirdly, from the decision of the court in the case of Cross vs. Harrison (16 Howard) referring to California which...