Sloan v. United States

SUTRAS, District Judge.

On the 15th day of August, 1894, the congress of the United States enacted a statute reading as follows (28 Stat. 305):

“That all persons who are in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, who are entitled to an allotment of land under any law of congress, or who claim to be so entitled to land under any allotment act or under any grant made by congress, or who claim to have been unlawfully denied or excluded from any allotment or any parcel of land to which they claim to he lawfully entitled by virtue of any act of congress, may commence or prosecute or defend any…