Dick v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
RROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO. By indictment returned in the District Court of the United States for the District of Idaho, the plaintiff in error, Dick, was charged with the offense cf having unlawfully and feloniously; introduced intoxicating liquor, whiskey, into the Indian country, to wit, into and upon -the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, in the county of Nez Perce, State-of Idaho. ' The indictment was based upon § 2139 of the…
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RROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO. By indictment returned in the District Court of the United States for the District of Idaho, the plaintiff in error, Dick, was charged with the offense cf having unlawfully and feloniously; introduced intoxicating liquor, whiskey, into the Indian country, to wit, into and upon -the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, in the county of Nez Perce, State-of Idaho. ' The indictment was based upon § 2139 of the Revised Statutes as amended and reenacted by the act of July 23, 1892, 27 Stat. 260, c. 234. That amended section reads:…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
From the above statement it appears:
That the lands allotted in severalty to Indians in conformity with the act of February 8, 1887, were- to be held for the period of twenty-five years by the United States in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian allottee or his- heirs, when a formal patent, was- to be issued by the United States to the Indian or his heirs in fee, free from all charge or incumbrance whatever—such period subject to be extended by the President in' his discretion;
That upon the completion of the allotments and patenting of the lands to the allottees, as- in that act…
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