 They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion...  Papers - Page 57by British and American Joint Commission for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Charles Deane - Massachusetts - 1873 - 36 pages
...a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, wilh a legal as well as just claim to retain possession...it, and to use it according to their own discretion; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished ; and... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1873 - 542 pages
...in no instance entirely disregarded; but were necessarily, to a considerable extent^ impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal aa well as just claim to retain possession of it, und to use it according to their own discretion:... | |
 | Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 566 pages
...people as having the sole right to make terms with the Indians, and to plant settlements. The Indians were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty were necessarily diminished, and their power to dispose... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...in no instance entirely disregarded, but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...it, and to use it according to their own discretion, but their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations were necessarily diminished, and their... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll - Cabinet officers - 1879 - 630 pages
...in no instance entirely disregarded, but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations were necessarily diminished, and... | |
 | John Robison Cartwright - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 798 pages
...occupancy or use in the soil, wljich was subordinate to the ultimate dominion of the discoverers. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal, as well as a just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion. In a curtain... | |
 | Archaeology - 1900 - 634 pages
...extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the original occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as a just claim to retain possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion; but their right to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, was necessarily diminished, and their... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1286 pages
...In no instance, entirely disregarded, but were necessarily, to a considerable extent impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...it, and to use it according to their own discretion ; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily diminished, and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1888 - 710 pages
...were in no instance entirely disregarded, but were necessarily to a considerable extent impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the...possession of it, and to use it according to their owu discretion; but their rights to complete sovereignty, as independent nations, were necessarily... | |
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