Readjustment of Indian Affairs: Hearings Before the Committee on Indian Affairs House of Representatives, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 7902 a Bill to Grant to Indians Living Under Federal Tutelage the Freedom to Organize for Purposes of Local Self-government and Economic Enterprise; to Provide for the Necessary Training of Indians in Administrative and Economic Affairs; to Conserve and Develop Indian Lands; and to Promote the More Effective Administration of Justice in Matters Affecting Indian Tribes and Communities by Establishing a Federal Court of Indian AffairsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1934 - 515 pages |
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Page 322 - All Indians committing against the person or property of another Indian or other person any of the following crimes, namely, murder, manslaughter, rape, incest, assault with intent to kill, assault with a dangerous weapon, arson? burglary, robbery, and larceny on and within any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 322 - This section shall not extend to offenses committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian, nor to any Indian committing any offense in the Indian country who has been punished by the local law of the tribe, or to any case where, by treaty stipulations, the exclusive jurisdiction over such offenses is or may be secured to the Indian tribes respectively.
Page 12 - Of all actions, suits, or proceedings involving the right of any person, in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, to any allotment of land under any law or treaty.
Page 351 - Board, in accordance with the civil-service laws, and whose compensation shall be fixed in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. Each such veterans...
Page 117 - Title to any lands or rights acquired pursuant to this Act shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Indian tribe or individual Indian for which the land is acquired, and such lands or rights shall be exempt from State and local taxation.
Page 499 - Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the state or territory where such land is located, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to said Iniian, or his heirs as aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever ; Provided, That the president of the United States may in any case in his discretion extend the period.
Page 346 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States oj America in Congress assembled, That...
Page 13 - States shall have like powers and be under like duties to act for and in behalf of said court as pertain to...
Page 412 - ... take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I, AB, do solemnly...
Page 322 - The preceding section shall not be construed to extend to crimes committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian...