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Property Rights Under Treaty
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PROPERTY
RIGHTS SECURED TO PERSONS UNDER TREATY AGREEMENTS CAN NOT BE IMPAIRED BY EVEN
CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION MUCH LESS TRIBAL CUSTOM The
treaty of 1830 having conferred property rights on petitioners herein as
descendants of the then living Choctaws, and the treaty of 1837 having conferred
the same rights on descendants of Chickasaws, and these rights having been
secured to them by the very Congressional act under which they were erroneously
enrolled, and all prior acts of Congress, the contention of the
Commissioner—which has been seriously asserted and adhered to in the
determination of the rights of petitioners herein and now acquiesced in by the
Indian Office—that they could be divested of their property rights by mere
tribal customs, is grotesque. |
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