Pickens v. Harper

Chancellor.

The complainant states, in substance, that at the time of the ratification of the Dancing Rabbit Creek treaty, made between the U. States and the Choctaw tribe of Indians, he was the head of a Choctaw family, having mne children, three over and six under the age of ten years ¡ and that he was, by the terms of the 14th article of said treaty, entitled to four contiguous sections of land, out of the territory which formed the subject of said treaty ; to wit, one section for himself, a half section for each child over ten years, and a quarter section for each one under that age ;…