United States v. Joseph

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

Sect. 2118 of tbe Revised Statutes, which was originally enacted June 30,1834, declares that every person who makes a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States to any Indian tribe, or surveys or attempts to survey said lands, or to designate any of the boundaries by marking trees or otherwise, is liable to a penalty of $1,000. By sect. 7 of the act of July 27, 1851, it was enacted “ that all laws now in force regulating trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, or such provisions of the same as may be…