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Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Communicating, In Answer To A Senate Resolution Of January 15, 1878, A Copy Of The Report Of Indian Inspector E. C. Watkins, In Relation To The Consolidation Of Indian Agencies In The Colville Country.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Consolidation of Indian Agencies. 24 Jan. SED 20, 45-2, v1, 8p. [1780] Establishment of a large reservation in the Colville country for Indians on reservations in Washington and Oregon.

Letter From The Secretary Of War, Communicating His Views In Relation To The Bill (S. 165) To Reimburse The State Of Texas For Expenses Incurred In Repelling Invasions Of Indians And Mexicans.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Claims of Texas. 22 Jan. SED 19, 45-2, v1, 195p. [1780] In repelling Indian invasions from 1854 to 1877: Kickapoos, Comanches and other Indian tribes involved.

Election Of Delegate From Indian Territory

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Election of a Delegate from Indian Territory. [1826] Representation of the Creeks, Seminoles, Cherokees, Chickasaws, and Choctaws in Congress.

Election Of Delegate From Indian Territory

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Election of a Delegate from Indian Territory. [1822] Representation in Congress for the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws.

Message From The President Of The United States, Communicating, In Answer To A Senate Resolution Of November 13, 1877, Information In Relation To The Cause And Probable Cost Of The Late Nez Perces War.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Message on the Nez Perce War. 18 Jan. SED 14, 45-2, v1, 10p. [1780] Causes and history of the war. Along with its probable cost; pursuit of Chief Joseph's band for refusal to go onto a reservation.

Pensions To Persons Who Served In The Mexican And Other Wars

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report on Pensions. [1822] Services in the Creek war of 1835-1836, the Seminole war in Florida of 1835-1842, and the Black Hawk war of 1832.

Ella P. Murphy

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

On the Relief of E. Murphy. [1822] Mescalero Apache depredations of 1861 and 1870 in Texas.

Robert C. Buchanan

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

On the Relief of R. Buchanan. [1822] Invention of a portable boat during the Rogue River Indian war of 1856-1857 in Oregon and California; U.S. uses boat even after it has been patented.

Indians In Michigan And Indiana. (To Accompany Bill H. R. 2283.) Memorial Of Certain Indians Residing In Michigan And Indiana, For Relief

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Memorial of Michigan and Indiana Indians. [1815] Pottawatomies exempted from removal under the treaty of 27 Sept. 1833; ask for funds due under various treaties.

Anson Call

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

On the Relief on A. Call. [1822] Escort services through hostile Indian country in Utah during 1853-1855.

James Brice

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

On the Relief of J. Brice. [1822] Arapahoe depredations of 1868 near Fort Lyon.

Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting, In Compliance With A Senate Resolution Of December 14, 1877, Information In Relation To The Location Of Bands Of Apache And Ute Indians At Cimarron, N. Mex.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Letter on the Apaches and Utes. 14 Jan. SED 8, 45-2, v1, 10p. [1780] On their removal from the Cimarron Valley, New Mexico, to the Rio de los Pinos agency (for the Utes) and the Mescalero Apache agency.

Resolution Of Senator Mitchell

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Resolution of Senator Mitchell. [1785] Establishment of four Indian Territories for all reservation Indians.

Remonstrance Of The Seminole And Creek Delegates Against The Passage Of Senate Bill No. 107, To Enable Indians To Become Citizens Of The United States.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Remonstrance of Creek and Seminole Delegates. [1785] Against the bill allowing Indians to become citizens; violates numerous treaties; would lead to tribal disintegration.

Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting, In Obedience To Law, An Inventory Of Property Belonging To The United States In The Department Of The Interior.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Property in the Interior Dept. 17 Jan. SED 11, 45-2, v1, 3p. [1780] Including the OIA.

Letter From The Secretary Of The Treasury, Transmitting An Estimate Of Appropriations For Payment Of Claims Originating Prior To July 1, 1875, Under Sections 3687 And 3689, Revised Statutes.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Estimates for Payment of Claims. [1802] Claims under special statutes include the Seminole war.

Principles That Should Govern In The Framing Of Tax Laws, Thomas M. Cooley

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"The foregoing paper was prepared for, and read before, the American Social Science Association, at its meeting in Cincinnati on April 22, 1878. It is not, as will be seen, a discussion of legal questions, but of questions in political economy. Still, at this time, when attention is very generally being directed to the principles of taxation, it will be found not wanting in practice interest to the legal profession." Professor Cooley takes on the problem of suitable and just taxation, a problem "forever demanding solution, but never solved." How do we set equitable rates based on personal valuation for …

Changes In The Balance Of Governmental Power, Thomas M. Cooley

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“In taking up for brief review the action of the convention in framing, and that of the people of the Union in adopting the Federal Constitution ninety years ago, we should be able after such a lapse of time, and in view of our diversified experience under it, to deal with it in a spirit of dispassionate criticism, and without boasting or unreasonable exultation. Yet we may perhaps truly say that the act itself was the most notable in government-making of which history bears record….”

The Lawyer’S Duty To Be Faithful To His Own Manhood, Thomas M. Cooley

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“On a previous occasion similar to this when I was invited to address a few parting words to a class of law students, I directed their attention specifically to their duty to observe fidelity to their clients. To-day I shall call your attention to a duty equally imperative, and perhaps still more often neglected, namely: the duty of fidelity to one’s own manhood....

“I shall have accomplished fully my purpose in these parting admonitions if I impress upon your convictions the paramount importance of observing in all your professional life the obligation of fidelity to truth, to justice, …

Some Hints On Defects In The Jury System, James V. Campbell

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The occasional freaks of juries have now and then led some members of the bar to speculate on the policy of doing without them entirely, and some persons no doubt think that they have strong convictions that the jury system has become useless. It is safe to say that these extreme views are altogether speculative, and not based on any careful comparison of results. Most persons who have looked into their own experience with courts and juries are ready to agree that where there is no dispute about main facts, so that the chief dispute is one of law, there …

Principles That Should Govern In The Framing Of Tax Laws, Thomas M. Cooley

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The problem of suitable and justtaxation is one which is forever demanding solution, butnever solved. Adam Smith gave to the world certain rules which should governin taxation, the first of which was that "The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities - that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state." While most writers on political economy have been disposed to accept this as a sound and just rule, some have objected to it that it …

The Method Of Electing The President, Thomas M. Cooley, Abram S. Hewitt

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Twice in the history of the United States the nation has been brought to the verge of civil war by difficulties growing out of presidential elections. And yet no system was ever devised with more care to preclude any reasonable complaint.

Limits To State Control Of Private Business, Thomas M. Cooley

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The present purpose is to inquire whether, in the matter of the regulation of property rights and of business, legislation has not of late been occupying doubtful, possibly unconstitutional grounds. The discussion in the main must be limited to fundamental.-principles, aided by such light as legal and constitutional history may throw upon them, since the express provisions of the constitutions can give little assistance. They always contain the general guaranty of due process of law to life, liberty, and property, but in other particulars they for the most part leave protection to principles which have come from the common law. …