The Cherokee Tobacco
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the District Court for tbe Western District of , Arkansas; the ease involving, first, the question of the intention of Congress, and, second,'assuming the intention to exist, the question of its power, to tax certain tobacco in the territory of tbe Cherokee nation, in the face of a prior treaty between that nation and the United States, that such tobacco should be exempt from taxation. The case was elaborately argued orally or on briefs, by Messrs.
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Error to the District Court for tbe Western District of , Arkansas; the ease involving, first, the question of the intention of Congress, and, second,'assuming the intention to exist, the question of its power, to tax certain tobacco in the territory of tbe Cherokee nation, in the face of a prior treaty between that nation and the United States, that such tobacco should be exempt from taxation. The case was elaborately argued orally or on briefs, by Messrs. E. 0. Boudinot, A. Pike, R. W. Johnson, and B. F. Butler, for the claimants; and by Mr. Akerman, Attorney-General, mid Mr. Bristow,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
stated the case and delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a writ of error to the District Court of the Western District of Arkansas. The case,, so far as it is necessary to state it, lies within a narrow compass.
The proceeding was instituted by the defendants in error to procure the condemnation and forfeiture of the tobacco in question, and of the other property described in the libel of information, for alleged violations, which are fully set forth, of the revenue laws of the United States. Elias C. Boudinot, for himself and his copartner, Stand Wattie, interposed, and by his answer…
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