The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... Committee feel authorized , therefore , in laying down the follow- ing positions : " First . The right of soil or ultimate fee in the lands embraced in the treaty with the Chickasaws resided originally in the State of Georgia . " Second ...
... Committee feel authorized , therefore , in laying down the follow- ing positions : " First . The right of soil or ultimate fee in the lands embraced in the treaty with the Chickasaws resided originally in the State of Georgia . " Second ...
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... Committee further conceive that any donation , grant , or reservation of said lands without provision to compensate this State for the five per cent . to which she would have been entitled upon a sale as a manifest violation of the ...
... Committee further conceive that any donation , grant , or reservation of said lands without provision to compensate this State for the five per cent . to which she would have been entitled upon a sale as a manifest violation of the ...
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... Committee wish it to be distinctly understood that they conceive reservations and donations of the public lands as much a breach of con- tract on the part of the United States as an absolute withholding of the five per cent . upon ...
... Committee wish it to be distinctly understood that they conceive reservations and donations of the public lands as much a breach of con- tract on the part of the United States as an absolute withholding of the five per cent . upon ...
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... Committee is simply to permit the contract to be abandoned , so far as the United States have chosen to abandon it , and to consider the Chickasaw lands as if no contract had ever existed in relation to them . Of course , then they ...
... Committee is simply to permit the contract to be abandoned , so far as the United States have chosen to abandon it , and to consider the Chickasaw lands as if no contract had ever existed in relation to them . Of course , then they ...
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... committee was appointed , but , in consequence of more pressing matters , they pleaded want of time , the impossibility of taking testimony , etc. , and so they were discharged . Omitting the notice of the other important questions in ...
... committee was appointed , but , in consequence of more pressing matters , they pleaded want of time , the impossibility of taking testimony , etc. , and so they were discharged . Omitting the notice of the other important questions in ...
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