Thayer v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case : The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, a licensed trader at the Lac Court d’Oreilles Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, in the year 1881, purchased, in the month of February, 1881, with the approval of S. B. Mahan, then acting agent at the La Pointe Agency, from the Indians Bi-da-na-kwad 187,000 feet of pine logs and from Chiz-ai-aw 15,000 feet of pine logs. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case : The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, a licensed trader at the Lac Court d’Oreilles Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, in the year 1881, purchased, in the month of February, 1881, with the approval of S. B. Mahan, then acting agent at the La Pointe Agency, from the Indians Bi-da-na-kwad 187,000 feet of pine logs and from Chiz-ai-aw 15,000 feet of pine logs. II. The said logs were cut by said Indians (Bi-da-na-kwad and Chiz-ai-aw) from the lands allotted to them September 24, 1878, by the then agent, J. L.…
1Opinion of the CourtScofield, J.
Prior to September 24, 1878, the United States had made surveys and subdivisions of the Lae Court d’Oreilles Reservation; in the State of Wisconsin, before reserved for the use of the Chippewa Indians, and on that day. under the direction of its agents, made an allotment of the subdivisions to individual Indians, for their own separate use and occupation. The Indians were put in possession of their several tracts, and from thattime forward treated them as their own. Sometimeelapsed before the reports of these agents cou-ld be examined and approved in the Interior Department, but the…
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