United States v. Bartlett
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the act of May 27, 1908, extending restrictions on alienation of Indian allotments, are stated in the opinion. By the act of May 27, 1908, Congress meant to provide against the alienation, prior to April 26, 1931, of any allotment then held by any member of any of the Five Civilized.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction of the act of May 27, 1908, extending restrictions on alienation of Indian allotments, are stated in the opinion. By the act of May 27, 1908, Congress meant to provide against the alienation, prior to April 26, 1931, of any allotment then held by any member of any of the Five Civilized. Tribes of full or three-quarters Indian blood, excepting only such allotments as had been or as might thereafter be specifically relieved of restrictions, by the action of the Secretary of the Interior or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
This is a suit to cancel two deeds of land allotted to an enrolled citizen of the Creek tribe of Indians. The land is what is known as surplus, as distinguished from homestead, land, and the allottee is of three-fourths Indian blood. The allotment was made under the act of June 30, 1902, 32 Stat. 500, c. 1323, known as the Supplemental Creek Agreement, which provided in § 16 that the land should be inalienable by the allottee or his heirs for a period of five yeará, expiring as it is said in the briefs, August 8, 1907. In 1912 the allottee deeded the land to Bartlett, one of the appellees,…
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