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Memorial Of The State Grange Of Texas, Praying That All Treaty Stipulations Between The United States And The Indians In The Indian Territory May Be Strictly Adhered To And Observed In Every Particular

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

Memorial of the State Grange of Texas. [1833] That treaty stipulations with tribes in Indian Territory be observed by the U.S.

Homesteads On Public Lands

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

Homesteads on Public Lands. [1838] Establishment of a colony in northwestern Kansas; would check Indian hostilities.

Letter From The Secretary Of War, Transmitting A Communication From The Commanding General, Department Of The Missouri, Inclosing A Report Of C. A. H. Mccauley, Third Cavalry, Of His Explorations In And About Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

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

Exploration Near Pagosa Springs, Colorado. 12 Feb. SED 65, 45-3, v4. 27p. [ 1831] Plans for a fort to be located there; near the proposed consolidated Ute reservation; Ute beliefs regarding geological phenomena.

Affairs In Indian Territory

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

Affairs in Indian Territory. [1839] Protests of the various Indian councils and delegates against the formation of a territorial government; Indian citizenship; lands claimed by railroads; establishment of a U.S. court with jurisdiction over the territory; representation in Congress.

Message From The President Of The United States, Communicating The Report Of The Commission Appointed Under The Provisions Of The Act Approved May 3, 1878, Entitled "An Act Authorizing The President Of The United States To Make Certain Negotiations With The Ute Indians In The State Of Colorado"

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

Ute Indians in Colorado. 8 Feb. SED 62 (pts. 1 and 2), 45-3. v4. 63p. [1831] Negotiations with the Utes for extinguishment of their title to lands in Colorado; agreement of 9 Nov. 1878 involving land cessions.

On The Case Of Col. Collins

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

On the Case of Col. Collins. [1838] Indian campaign of 1859 in California.

Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution, Showing The Operations, Expenditures, And Condition Of The Institution For The Year 1878

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

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. [1835] Research related to the American Indian.

Report Of The Indian Commission. Message From The President Of The United States, Transmitting The Report Of The Commission Appointed To Make Certain Negotiations With The Indians Of Colorado

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

Negotiations with the Indians of Colorado. [1858] Negotiations with the Utes for a cession of land; agreement made 9 Nov. 1878.

Infantry

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

Clerical Force in the Indian Office. [1828] Increase in number and salary.

Klamath Indian Reservation

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

Klamath Indian Reservation. [1838] Claims of settlers on reservation lands prior to the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake treaty of 14 Oct. 1864 which established said reserve.

On The Relief Officers Of The Fifth

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

On the Relief officers of the Fifth Infantry. [1838] Called from Fort Leavenworth. Kansas, following the Custer massacre to serve in the campaign of 1876-1877 against the Sioux bands under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse; belongings lost when the steamboat J. Donald Cameron sinks on the Missouri River.

Report Upon The Customs District, Public Service, And Resources Of Alaska Territory.

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

Public Service and Resources of Alaska. 4 Feb. SED 59. 45-3, v4. 163p. [1831] List of Indian tribes in Alaska, along with their condition; Indian trade; liquor traffic.

Survey Of The Western Boundary Of Arkansas

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

Survey of the Western Boundary of Arkansas. [1838] Between Arkansas and Indian country; conflict over lines set up under the Choctaw treaty of 20 Jan. 1825. and the Cherokee treaty of 6 May 1828.

Testimony Taken By Committee Appointed To Consider Expediency Of Transferring Indian Bureau To War Department

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

Testimony on Transfer of the Indian Bureau. [1835] From the Interior Dept. to the War Dept.; Indians testify on the transfer, and on Indian relations with the military.

Loyol P. Brown

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

Report : Claim of L. Brown. [1866] Payment for improvements made on the Nez Percé reservation in Idaho; treaty of 11 June 1855 covers reimbursement of the U.S. government.

Captain J. B. Campbell

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

On the Relief of Capt. Campbell. [1866] Arrests made in Alaska during 1874 for sale of liquor in Indian country.

Report Of The Joint Committee Appointed To Consider The Expediency Of Transferring The Indian Bureau To The War Department

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

Transfer of the Indian Bureau. [1837] From the Interior Dept. to the War Dept.; history of control of Indian affairs within government.

Transfer Of The Indian Bureau To The War Department

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

Transfer of the Indian Bureau. [1866] From the Interior Dept. to the War Dept.

Report Of The Joint Committee Appointed To Consider The Expediency Of Transferring The Indian Bureau To The War Department

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

Transfer of the Indian Bureau. [1866] From the Interior Dept. to the War Dept.

On The Relief Of J. Chickering

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

On the Relief of J. Chickering. [1837] Expedition of 1874 against hostile Indians in Texas.

Klamath Indian Reservation Lands

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

Klamath Indian Reservation Lands. [1866] Claims of land owners within the reservation established by the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake treaty of 4 Oct. 1864.

Estimates Of Deficiencies. Letter From The Secretary Of The Treasury, Transmitting Estimates Of Appropriations Required By The Various Departments To Complete The Service Of The Current And Prior Years

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

Estimates of Deficiencies in Appropriations. [1852] Year ending 30 June 1879; Indian expenses.

On The Case Of H. Gates

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

On the Case of H. Gates. [1837] Service in the Seminole war in Florida.

United States Commission Of Fish And Fisheries. Part Vi. Report Of The Commissioner For 1878.

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

Report of the Com'r of Fish and Fisheries. [1834] Potential Indian hostilities in California: Indian employees at the fishery on the McCloud River in California.

A Treatise On The Law Of Torts Or The Wrongs Which Arise Independent Of Contract, Thomas M. Cooley

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In preparing the following pages the purpose has been to set forth with reasonable clearness the general principles under which tangible and intangible rights may be claimed, and their disturbance remedied in the law. The book has been written quite as much for students as for practitioners, and if some portions of it are more elementary than is usual in similar works, this fact will supply the explanation.

Law Abridgment: Closing Address Delivered Before The Graduating Law Class Of The University Of Michigan, March 20, 1879., James V. Campbell

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We hear on all sides complaints of the increasing mass of printed Reports and text-books, which it is said the lawyer must find some means of mastering, but which no life is long enough to read. The young lawyer, as he scans the dreary catalogues, and wonders what Croesus can buy or what brain can learn all this lore, is sorely puzzled what books to choose from the thousands that have found printers. And when a few years of practice have shown him how small a share of these books have done any good in the world, he is forced …

The Laws Of Jamaica, 1879, Jamaica

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The Laws of Jamaica passed in 1879

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The Surrender Of Fugitives From Justice, Thomas M. Cooley

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The Constitution of the United States provides that "a person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime." The act of Congress of 1793 imposed the duty of surrender upon the executive of the State in which the fugitive should be found, and provided the manner in which the charge of crime should be authenticated for his action. It …

A Treatise On The Law Of Taxation Including The Law Of Local Assessments, Thomas M. Cooley

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"The following pages have been prepared with a view to present in a shape for practical use, the general rules which must govern the action of all authorities acting in matters of taxation ….

The preparation of any treatise on taxation necessarily involves the presentation of disputed points, and the expression of opinions upon them. This has been done in the following pages. It has not been the purpose, however, to take any positions which it was not believed the authorities would justify; and if this has been done in any instance, the references which are made to authorities will …

Lake Superior Mining Co. V. Catharine Erickson, Thomas M. Cooley

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"Where a mining company let a contract for taking out a certain quantity of ore, but employed persons of supposed skill to watch for dangers from loosened rocks, and in other ways retained a control over the mode of mining, and a servant of the contractors was killed by the falling of a rock, the danger from which ought to have been detected and guarded against: Held, that the mining company was responsible."