United States v. Rickert
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This suit was instituted unde); the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, for the purpose of restraining the collection of taxes alleged to be due the county of Roberts, South Dakota, in respect of certain permanent improvements on,, and personal property used in the cultivation of, lands in that county occupied by members of the Sisseton Band of Sioux Indians in the State of South…
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This suit was instituted unde); the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, for the purpose of restraining the collection of taxes alleged to be due the county of Roberts, South Dakota, in respect of certain permanent improvements on,, and personal property used in the cultivation of, lands in that county occupied by members of the Sisseton Band of Sioux Indians in the State of South Dakota. The case is here upon questions certified by the judges of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Haelaé,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
I. Were the lands held by the allottees, Charles B. Crawford and the other Indians named in the bill, subject to assessment and taxation by the taxing authorities of Roberts County, South Dakota f
This is the first of the questions certified by the judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals. It is not, in our opinion, difficult, of solution.
By the act of Congress of February 8, 1887, c. 119, referred to. in .the certificate and known as ‘the General Allotm'ent Act, provision was made for the allotment of…
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