California Indians Jurisdictional Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, on S. 1651, an Act to Amend the Act Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Attorney General of the State of California to Bring Suit in the Court of Claims on Behalf of the Indians of California", Approved May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 602), August 10, 1937 : Hearings Before Subcommittee, August 12, 13, 1937U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 227 pages |
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45 Stat 70th Congress acres act of Congress affiant amended petition amount Attorney General Webb attorney of record attorney or attorneys Auxiliaries award bands of Indians basic bill behalf California Indians Chairman claimants Commissioner COLLIER Commissioner of Indian Committee on Indian compensation conference contract counsel Court of Claims defendant delegates Department DIMOND draft ELMER THOMAS Enabling Act fact Federal fees filed fornia Government Hanley hearing hereby Indian Affairs Indian Board Indians of California individual Indians comprised interest Interior J. E. Pemberton J. W. Henderson John Collier judgment jurisdictional act lands language legislation letter MARION BUTLER matter MEANEY ment Mission Indians nations nontreaty Indians parties petitioners plaintiff present proposed prosecution quantum meruit question recognized recovery referred rendered Secretary selection Senate committee set-offs SHEPPARD SHIPE Sloan statement STORMONT submitted suit Supreme Court thereof tion U. S. Webb United Washington WILLIS witness
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Page 158 - The Mexicans who. in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 64 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 173 - If the thing stolen consists of any evidence of debt, or other written instrument, the amount of money due thereupon, or secured to be paid thereby, and remaining unsatisfied, or which in any contingency might be collected thereon, or the value of the property the title to which is shown thereby, or the sum which might be recovered in the absence thereof, is the value of the thing stolen.
Page 155 - The amount of any judgment shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of California and shall draw interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum and shall be thereafter subject to appropriation by Congress for educational, health, industrial, and other purposes for the benefit of said Indians, including the purchase of lands and building of homes, and no part of said judgment shall be paid out in per capita payments to said Indians...
Page 186 - SEC. 6. The amount of any judgment shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of California and shall draw interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum and shall be thereafter subject to appropriation by Congress for educational, health, industrial...
Page 119 - Official letters, papers, documents, and public records, or certified copies thereof, may be used in evidence, and the departments of the Government shall give...
Page 89 - Indians residing on such reservation, as the case may be, at a special election authorized and called by the Secretary of the Interior under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Page 159 - The right of the Indians to their occupancy is as sacred as that of the United States to the fee, but it is only a right of occupancy. The possession, when abandoned by the Indians, attaches itself to the fee without further grant.
Page 3 - All claims of whatsoever nature the Indians of California as defined in section 1 of this Act may have against the United States by reason of lands taken from them in the State of California by the United States without compensation...