Choctaw & Chickasaw Nations v. United States

*283CONCLUSIONS

Upon the foregoing special findings of fact, the court, in accordance with Section 151, of the Judidal Code, concluded as follows:

1. The plaintiffs have no legal or equitable rights and there has been no taking by the defendant of any lands of the plaintiffs for which the defendant has not paid a valid consideration. United States v. Choctaw Nation et El., 179 U. S. 494, 496.

2. There is no claim made against the defendant but solely a request for a gift, grant, or bounty. Whether a gift, grant, or bounty should be made is within the sound discretion of the Congress and, being…