Legal Opinion
Quinault Allottee Ass'n v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided January 21, 1972No. 102-71PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, Judge
The claim made in this petition is for administrative charges which the Government has deducted from the proceeds of sales of timber from individual Indian allotments on the Quinault Reservation in the State of Washington. Under the General Allotment Act of 1887, as amended, 25 U.S.C. §§ 331, et seg., parcels within the Reservation, mainly forest lands, were allotted in trust to individual Indians, the great mass of whom are “noncompetent” (in the Indian sense). The Bureau of Indian Affairs has managed these tracts essentially as a single unit (known as the Quinault Forest), selling timber…
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