Osage Nation of Indians Judgment Funds: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, on S. 1456 and S. 3234 ...

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Seite 109 - From their very weakness and helplessness, so largely due to the course of dealing of the Federal government with them and the treaties in which it has been promised, there arises the duty of protection, and with it the power. This has always been recognized by the executive and by Congress, and by this court, whenever the question has arisen.
Seite 78 - When any person having title to any estate not otherwise limited by marriage contract, dies without disposing thereof by will, it is succeeded to and must be distributed, unless otherwise expressly provided in this code and the Code of Civil Procedure, subject to the payment of his debts, in the following manner: 1.
Seite 79 - If the decedent leaves neither issue, husband, wife, father, mother, brother, nor sister, the estate must go to the next of kin, in equal degree, excepting that, when there are two or more collateral kindred, in equal degree, but claiming through different ancestors, those who claim through the nearest ancestor must be preferred to those claiming through an ancestor more remote: 6.
Seite 173 - ... if there be no father or mother, then one half goes in equal shares to the brothers and sisters of the decedent, and to the children of any deceased brother or sister by right of representation.
Seite 109 - The power of the general government over these remnants of a race once powerful, now weak and diminished in numbers, is necessary to their protection, as well as to the safety of those among whom they dwell. It must exist in that government, because it never has existed anywhere else, because the theater of its exercise is within the geographical limits of the United States, because it has never been denied, and because it alone can enforce its laws on all the tribes.
Seite 78 - If there is neither issue, husband, wife, father, nor mother, then in equal: shares to the brothers and sisters of decedent and to the children or grandchildren of any deceased brother or sister, by right of representation; 4.
Seite 79 - ... not having been married, all the estate that came to the deceased child by inheritance from such decedent descends in equal shares to the other children of the same parent and to the issue of any such other children who are dead, by right of representation; 7.
Seite 173 - If the decedent leaves no surviving husband or wife, but leaves issue, the whole estate goes to such issue; and if such issue consists of more than one child living, or one child living and the lawful issue of one or more deceased children, then the estate goes in equal shares to the children living, or to the child living and the issue of the deceased child or children by right of representation.
Seite 78 - If there be neither issue, husband, wife, father, nor mother, then in equal shares to the brothers and sisters of the decedent, and to the Children of any deceased brother or sister, by right of representation; 5.
Seite 109 - These Indian tribes are the wards of the nation. They are communities dependent on the United States; dependent largely for their daily food. Dependent for their political rights. They owe no allegiance to the States, and receive from them no protection.

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