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1899, March 2 - 30 Stat. 990, Act To Acquire Rights Of Way By Railroad Companies Through Indian Reservations, Lands, Allotments
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The Act provided that a right of way for a railway, telegraph and telephone line through any Indian reservation or any lands held by an Indian tribe or nation in Indian Territory, or through any lands reserved for an Indian agency or for other purposes in connection with the Indian service, or through any lands which have been allotted in severalty to any individual Indian under any law or treaty, but which have not been conveyed to the allottee with full power of alienation, would be granted to any railroad company organized under laws of United States or State or …
1887, February 8 - 24 Stat. 388, Act For Allotment Of Lands To Indians
1887, February 8 - 24 Stat. 388, Act For Allotment Of Lands To Indians
US Government Legislation and Statutes
The Act provided that the President, based on his opinion that any reservation or any part thereof was advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes, could cause the reservation to be surveyed or resurveyed to allot the lands in severalty to any Indian (head of a family, single person over 18 years of age, each orphan child under 18 years of age, and any single person under 18 or who was born prior to the date of the President's order directing an allotment, one-sixteenth of a section) located there on in one-quarter sections. If there was insufficient land on reservation to …