United States v. First Nat. Bank of Detroit
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. These suits wefe brought by the United States in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of ■Minnesota against the appellees to set aside certain conveyances under and through which the appellees claimed title to lands, particularly described, in the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota.
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APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. These suits wefe brought by the United States in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of ■Minnesota against the appellees to set aside certain conveyances under and through which the appellees claimed title to lands, particularly described, in the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota. The decree of the District Court (which had succeeded the Circuit Court) in the first two cases in favor of the Government was reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, while the decree dismissing…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
Before the transfers here complained of and while the lands were held in trust, subject to the provisions of the act of February 8, 1887, supra, the Clapp Amendment was passed, having the purpose of removing the restrictions upon alienation in certain cases. This act provides, (34 Stat. p. 1034):
“That all restrictions as to sale, incumbrance, or taxation for allotments within the White Earth Reservation in the State of Minnesota, heretofore [amended March 1, 1907, the word ‘heretofore’ being substituted for the word ‘now’] or hereafter held by adult mixed-blood Indians, are hereby removed,…
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