Soto

The principal objections now made by the United States to the official survey were urged on a former occasion to this court, when the cause was before it on appeal from the board of land commissioners. They were then elaborately argued and fully considered, and a decree was entered declaring the boundaries of the tract confirmed, as seemed to the court to be just The exceptions filed by the United States seek to reopen the controversy thus settled and determined. It is enough to say that independently of the fact that the matter may well be deemed “res adjudi-cata,” I have seen no reason to doubt the entire correctness of the opinion heretofore delivered by this court. The location of the eastern line of the official survey is also objected to; but the location of this line was in like manner discussed in the opinion heretofore delivered, and fixed by the decree. Even if the question were still open, I confess myself unable to discover even plausibility in'the objection taken by the United States. The grant and diseño- of Soto appear to have embraced a tract extending from the San Lorenzo to the Alto creeks, and from the beach to the cuchilla, or crest of the hills, “excepting the…