Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]., Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 |
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acres Allegany Reservation allotments amount annual report annuity approved August average attendance boarding school boys bushels Cattaraugus Reservation cattle census charge Choctaw Church civilization COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN condition consideration constructed corn County court Creek crops day schools Department ditches dormitory employees ending June 30 enrollment farm farmer feet Females fence fiscal year ending Fort Sill furnished girls Government honor to submit improvements INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Agent Indian schools Indian Territory industrial instructions Iowa irrigation July June 30 labor Lac du Flambeau laundry leases located Ma tau Males ment miles missionary months Nation Osage past present progress pueblo pupils purchase purposes Quapaw railroad railway company received recommend repairs REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT reservation respectfully River road Sac and Fox schoolroom Seneca Seneca Nation supply Tama County teachers timber tion Total tribe United States Indian
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Page 460 - The United States under a grant specially to be made by the President of the US shall cause to be conveyed to the Choctaw Nation a tract of country west of the Mississippi River, in fee simple to them and their descendants, to inure to them while they shall exist as a nation and live on it...
Page 419 - ... no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States, than the rate per mile paid for their transportation over the railroads or public highways leading to said bridge; and the United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph purposes across said bridge.
Page 95 - April 5th of this year the Supreme Court of the United States rendered a decision In the case of Peggy Shade, a full-blood Cherokee Indian, Roll No.
Page 526 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action.
Page 526 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less, or different testimony, than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Page 461 - An act to provide for an exchange of lands, with the Indians residing in any of the States or Territories, and for their removal west of the Mississippi...
Page 447 - States, shall be of any validity until approved by the President of the United States...
Page 475 - And pursuant to an act of Congress approved May 28, 1830, the United States do hereby forever secure and guarantee the lands embraced within the said limits, to the members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, their heirs and successors, to be held in common; so that each and every member of either tribe shall have an equal, undivided interest in the whole...
Page 553 - The hearing which has been had is upon an order to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not issue.
Page 550 - America, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.