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... interests of the Indians and the interests and nience of the Army might not always agree ; and it is from no disr to the Army when I express the opinion that under such circumstan might sometimes be questionable which interests would ...
... interests of the Indians and the interests and nience of the Army might not always agree ; and it is from no disr to the Army when I express the opinion that under such circumstan might sometimes be questionable which interests would ...
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... interests of the Indians press into the foreground , the more necessary will it be that Indian management be connected ... interest to permit the Indian service to remain under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior , to be thus ...
... interests of the Indians press into the foreground , the more necessary will it be that Indian management be connected ... interest to permit the Indian service to remain under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior , to be thus ...
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... interest nor any pride of opinion in the Department that could possibly have prevented such a step - for in the very first report rendered by me after the removal of the Poncas , and after I had become fully aware of the whole character ...
... interest nor any pride of opinion in the Department that could possibly have prevented such a step - for in the very first report rendered by me after the removal of the Poncas , and after I had become fully aware of the whole character ...
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... interest , should be effectually arrested . Whatever our success in this respect may have been so far , it is certain that the evil will spring up again if the efforts of the government to arrest it should be in the least relaxed in the ...
... interest , should be effectually arrested . Whatever our success in this respect may have been so far , it is certain that the evil will spring up again if the efforts of the government to arrest it should be in the least relaxed in the ...
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... interest , to June 30 , 1880 .... Total credits , transportation and money in Treasury , June 30 , 1880 ... Balance due the United States . $ 112 , 213 , 373 30 15,385 , 261 13 96 , 828 , 112 17 The Auditor gives detailed statements in ...
... interest , to June 30 , 1880 .... Total credits , transportation and money in Treasury , June 30 , 1880 ... Balance due the United States . $ 112 , 213 , 373 30 15,385 , 261 13 96 , 828 , 112 17 The Auditor gives detailed statements in ...
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Page 289 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 532 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent; upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Page 475 - Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the year 1873. 8. Washington, 1874. Statement of the Public Debt of the United States, July 1, 1874.
Page 68 - An act to punish and prevent the practice of polygamy in the Territories of the United States and other places, and disapproving and annulling certain acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah...
Page 296 - To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age...
Page 534 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 87 - Columbia, and shall be punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion...
Page 446 - That any settler who has settled, or who shall hereafter settle, on any of the public lands of the United States, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the intention of claiming the same under the homestead laws, shall be allowed the same time to file his homestead application and perfect his original entry in the United States Land Office as is now allowed to settlers under the preemption laws...
Page 294 - An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to deposit certain funds in the United States Treasury in lieu of investment...
Page 70 - The jurisdiction of the several courts herein provided for, both appellate and original, and that of the Probate Courts and of justices of the peace, shall be as limited by law.