Commissioners of Miama Co. v. Wan-zop-pe-che
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Miami County. The facts in this case were similar to the facts in the preceding case of Blue jacket v. The Com’rs of Johnson County, the only difference in the two cases being the different wording of the treaties in the respect indicated in the subjoined opinion of the court. The two cases wore submitted at the same time and considered together. The briefs and arguments in the preceding case were used in this with some additions indicated below.
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Error from Miami County. The facts in this case were similar to the facts in the preceding case of Blue jacket v. The Com’rs of Johnson County, the only difference in the two cases being the different wording of the treaties in the respect indicated in the subjoined opinion of the court. The two cases wore submitted at the same time and considered together. The briefs and arguments in the preceding case were used in this with some additions indicated below. A perpetual injunction on the collection of the taxes was granted by the court below and the case brought here to reverse that order.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Crozier, C. J.
There is but one point of difference between this case and the case of Charles Blue-Jacket v. The Commissioners of Johnson County, decided at the present term. The treaty with the Shawnees provides that Congress may authorize the issuing of patents for the selected lands under restrictions, under which the restriction adopted was that the lands should never be sold or aliened by the grantees or their heirs, without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior. The treaty with the Miamis, after *369a similar clause, provides that the lands so patented, should not be…
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