 | 1885 - 1232 pages
...of the civil rights act of April 9, 1866, declaring who shall be citizens of the United States, is "all persons born in the United States, and not subject...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed." 14 St. 27; Rev. St. § 1992. Such Indians, then, not being citizens by birth, can only become citizens... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1885 - 844 pages
...of the Civil Rights Act of April 9, 1866, declaring who shall be citizens of the United States, is " all persons born in the United States, and not subject...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed." 14 Stat. 27 ; Rev. Stat. § 1992. Such Indians, then, not being citizens by both, can only become citizens... | |
 | Emery E. Childs - 1885 - 268 pages
...acts were vetoed by the President, and passed over his vetoes. The Civil Rights Bill ordained that all persons born in the United States, and not subject...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, were to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1885 - 844 pages
...of the Civil Rights Act of April 9, 1866, declaring who shall be citizens of the United States, is " all persons born in the United States, and not subject...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed." 14 Stat. 27 ; Rev. Stat. § 1992. Such Indians, then, not being citizens by birth, can only become... | |
 | 1885 - 890 pages
...and in April of the following year the Civil Rights Act was passed. Its first section declares that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, ex-. 457 eluding Indians not taxed, are "citizens of the United States," and that "such citizens, of... | |
 | Edward Warren Hines, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Cleland Wells, Frank L. Wells, Findlay Ferguson Bush, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, W. J. Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert McBeath - 1885 - 914 pages
...Woods concurring) insists that the act of 1866 which defines and enumerates those who are citizens, "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign powers, excluding Indians not taxed, "are citizens, shows that the criterion for Indian citizenship... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1886 - 846 pages
...citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." By section 1992, Revised Statutes, " all persons born in the United States and not subject...not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States." As will be seen elsewhere Indians are held not within this clause, not being "subject to the... | |
 | 1886 - 968 pages
...Congress before the adoption of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment, citizenship was defined as follows : " All persons born in the United States, and not subject...not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States." The presumption is reasonable that, in adopting different language in the Fourteenth Amendment... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1886 - 846 pages
...citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." By section 1992, Revised Statutes, *' all persons born in the United States and not subject...power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to bo citizens of the United States." As will be seen elsewhere Indians are held not within this clause,... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1886 - 778 pages
...Congress commoniy known as the "Civll Rights Rlll," (14 US Stats, at Large, p. 27,) which provide that "all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indlans not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States, and such, citizens of every... | |
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That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States... 
