State v. Wilson
Supreme Court of New Jersey
OS CERTIORARI. Lands purchased for the Brotherton Indians in this State, exempted from taxes, by the act authorizing the purchase, and afterwards sold by them, are subject to taxation.
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OS CERTIORARI. Lands purchased for the Brotherton Indians in this State, exempted from taxes, by the act authorizing the purchase, and afterwards sold by them, are subject to taxation. This writ was brought in order to quash an assessment of county and State taxes, made by the defendant, on certain lands, upwards of 3000 acres, lately held by certain commissioners or trustees, under a law of the late colony, for the use of a number of Indians, commonly called Brother-ton Indians. This land 'was purchased by the late colony, with' money belonging to the said Indians, due them from the colony,…
1Opinion of the Court
At this term the following opinions were'delivered, and the ease decided:
Rossell, J. —
In investigating this subject, it will be necessary to take into view the circumstances under which the several laws respecting the Indians lands, were passed. In 1758, the governor and general assembly of the then colony of New Jersey, at the request of the Indian natives, south of the Earitan, passed a law, empowering certain commissioners therein named, to purchase a tract of land, in the county of Burlington; this was' done, and agreeably to the directions of that act, the deed was made to those…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Murphy v. FloodSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1854
- Creswell v. BlankSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861