Pueblo Indian Lands: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, Fourth Session, on S.3865 and S.4223, Bills Relative to the Pueblo Indian LandsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1923 - 282 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
ABEYTA acres adjudication adverse possession areas attorney Atwood Bureau Bursum bill Chairman citizens claimants Colonel TWITCHELL color of title Commissioner BURKE Commissioner of Indian committee concerned confirmed CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Court of Private decree deed ditch equity fact filed give Government governor Indian Affairs Indian lands Indian Office individual Indian instance Interior irrigation jurisdiction justice Laguna league legislation letter LIBRARY OF CONGRESS matter Mexican Mexico non-Indian occupied Paguate Pojoaque present Private Land Claims protection Pueblo grant Pueblo Indians Pueblo lands Pueblo of Laguna pueblo of San purchase question quiet title record reference RENEHAN San Ildefonso San Juan Sandoval Santa Clara Santa Fe Secretary Senator BURSUM Senator JONES Senator LENROOT settlement settlers situation Spaniards statement suit Supreme Court Taos Taos Pueblo Territory Tesuque tion tract understand United States attorney United States court varas WILSON
Pasajes populares
Página 134 - Adverse possession' is defined to be an actual and visible appropriation of land, commenced and continued under a color of title and claim of right inconsistent with and hostile to the claim of another...
Página 17 - The letter referred to is here printed in the record as follows: NATIONAL GRANGE, Washington, DC, January 12, 1921.
Página 52 - Now, Know ye, That the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity, with the several Acts of Congress in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said Conrad B. Pack, and to his heirs, the said Tract above described...
Página 210 - State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries thereof...
Página 57 - Provided, That this confirmation shall only be construed as a relinquishment of all title and claim of the United States to any of said lands, and shall not affect any adverse valid rights, should such exist.
Página 48 - Not only does the Constitution expressly authorize Congress to regulate commerce with the Indian tribes, but long continued legislative and executive usage and an unbroken current of judicial decisions have attributed to the United States, as a superior and civilized nation, the power and the duty of exercising a fostering care and protection over all dependent Indian communities within its borders, whether within its original territory or territory subsequently acquired, and whether within or without...
Página 49 - Plenary authority over the tribal relations of the Indians has been exercised by Congress from the beginning, and the power has always been deemed a political one, not subject to be controlled by the judicial department of the Government.
Página 55 - Every person who makes a settlement on any lands belonging, secured, or granted by treaty with the United States to any Indian tribe, or surveys or attempts to survey such lands, or to designate any of the boundaries by marking trees, or otherwise, is liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars. The President may, moreover, take such measures and employ such military force as [he] may judge necessary to remove any such person from the lands.
Página 50 - It is settled beyond doubt or controversy — upon the foundation of the great principle of public policy, applicable to all governments alike, which forbids that the public interests should be prejudiced by the negligence of the officers or agents to whose care they are confided — that the United States, asserting rights Opinion of the Court.
Página 49 - There can be no more complete representation than that on the part of the United States in acting on behalf of these dependents — whom Congress, with respect to the restricted lands, has not yet released from tutelage. Its efficacy does not depend upon the Indian's acquiescence.