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25th Congress 2d Session acre tract act of Congress aforesaid agent Acken Alabama alleged amount appears authority bill Captain certified charge Charles F Cherokee nation claimant clerk commissioners Committee on Revolutionary consequence constitution contract Creek Indians cutting of pine damages deponent district attorney dollars duty East Florida entitled erected evidence execution facts February following REPORT Georgia government agent hostilities House instructions interference interrogatory John's river July June Legaré letter live oak timber logs loss March McClannan memorialist ment mill grant Navy Department operation opinion Panama persons petition petitioner pine timber pine trees plaintiff in error present President prevent the cutting printed profits provisions public lands received referred respectfully Revolutionary Pensions Rodman Samuel Grice Secretary ships Sibbald Snowden steam saw-mill Sully sustained territory testimony thereof Third Auditor tion Treasury treaty tribe Trout creek United West Point witnesses
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Página 39 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...
Página 43 - Bay company; as also, all the lands and territories lying to the westward of the sources of the rivers, which fall into the sea from the west and north-west as aforesaid; and we do hereby strictly forbid, on pain of our displeasure, all our loving subjects from making any purchases or settlements whatever, or taking possession of any of the lands above reserved, without our especial leave and licence for that purpose first obtained...
Página 39 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the constitution, or of a treaty, or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute or commission...
Página 84 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent;" and in their property, rights, and liberty they never shall be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Página 41 - This principle was that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects or by whose authority it was made against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Página 34 - Mills, a justice of the peace in and for said county, and being duly sworn on the holy evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith, that on the...
Página 39 - ... where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of the United States, and the decision is against its validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of any State on the ground of its being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of its validity, may be reviewed by the Supreme Court upon a writ of error.
Página 52 - The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter, but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties, and with the acts of Congress.
Página 59 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Página 39 - ... or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty, or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party,, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission...