Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior

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Page 40 - That when any Indian to whom an allotment of land has been made, or may hereafter be made, dies before the expiration of the trust period and before the issuance of a fee simple patent, without having made a will disposing of said allotment as hereinafter provided, the Secretary of the Interior, upon notice and hearing under such rules as he may prescribe, shall ascertain the legal heirs of such decedent, and his decision thereon shall be final and conclusive.
Page 35 - Provided also, That as a condition precedent to each sites. and every grant of a right of way under authority of this act, each and every railway company applying for such grant shall stipulate that it will construct and permanently maintain suitable passenger and freight stations for the convenience of each and every town site established by the Government along said right of way.
Page 13 - Indian reservations or allotments in this state shall be allotted, sold, reserved or otherwise disposed of, they shall be subject for a period of twenty-five years after such allotment, sale , reservation or other disposal, to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of liquor into the Indian country; and the terms "Indian...
Page 70 - That no will so executed shall be valid or have any force or effect unless and until it shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 42 - ... imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the. court ; provided, that this section shall take effect on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
Page 33 - The fourth section of the general allotment act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat.
Page 42 - ... be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment...
Page 3 - REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, November l, 18SO.
Page 71 - That it shall be unlawful for any person to induce any Indian to execute any contract, deed, mortgage, or other instrument purporting to convey any land or any interest therein held by the United States in trust for such Indian...
Page 16 - Some things that girls should know how to do and hence should learn how to do when in school. Washington, Government printing office, 1911.

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