United States v. Anderson
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. The facts, which involve the construction of provisions in the Indian Appropriation Act of 1884 relative . to sale of cattle purchased by the Government for the Indians, are stated in the opinion. The transaction is within the letter of the act; that is, the cattle were really “purchased by the Government.”
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON. The facts, which involve the construction of provisions in the Indian Appropriation Act of 1884 relative . to sale of cattle purchased by the Government for the Indians, are stated in the opinion. The transaction is within the letter of the act; that is, the cattle were really “purchased by the Government.” The cattle were purchased by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to specific authority from Congress. The cattle purchased by the Secretary of the Interior under the act of June 21, 1906, were “purchased by the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
By the Indian Appropriation Act of July 4, 1884, c. 180, 23 Stat. 76, 94, the following general provision was enacted:
“That where Indians are in possession or control of cattle or their increase which have been purchased by the Government such cattle shall not be sold to any person not a member of. the tribe to which the owners of the cattle belong or to any citizen of the United States whether intermarried with the Indians or not except with the consent in writing of the agent of the tribe to which the owner or possessor of the cattle belongs. And all sales made in violation of this…
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