Note 1350 — ARTICLE I (continued 6)
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Hepburn v. Ellzey, 2 Cr. 445, 452 (1805); see also Serè v. Pitot, 6 Cr. 332, 336 (1810); New Orleans v. Winter, 1 Wheat. 91, 94 (1816). The District has been held to be a "State" within the terms of a treaty regulating the inheritance of property within the "States of the Union." De Geofroy v. Riggs, 133 U.S. 258 (1890).