Ancient Indian Land Claims: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, on S. 2084 ... June 23, 1982, Washington, D.C.

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Page 622 - sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the trade, and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states; provided, that the legislative right of any state, within its own limits, he not infringed or
Page 455 - were continued under the Articles of Confederation, which were approved in 1777 and became effective in 1781. Article IX, clause 1, granted Congress the "sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war ... [and] entering into treaties and alliances....*
Page 618 - said territory shall be subject to pay a part of the Federal debts, contracted, or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other States; and the taxes
Page 614 - in force during good behavior. Sec. 5. The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary, and best suited to the circumstances of the district, and report them to Congress
Page 653 - The acts now in operation and force, are: An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, March 30, 1802, chap. 13; an act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof, March 26,
Page 443 - the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States; provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated.
Page 653 - chap. 25 Expired. An act for the preservation of peace with the Indian tribes, January 17, 1800, chap. 5.—Expired. An act supplementary to the "act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," April 22, 1800, chap. 30.—Expired.
Page 620 - of April, 1784, relative to the subject of this ordinance, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and declared null and void. Done by the United States, in Congress assembled, the i3th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1787, and of their sovereignty and independence the twelfth. 1
Page 653 - chap. 33—Expired. An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, March 1, 1793.—Repealed by act of May 19, 1796, chap. 30. An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, May
Page 665 - shall be in force in the Indian country : Provided, The same shall not extend to crimes committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian. SEC. 26. And be it further enacted, That if any person who shall be charged with a violation of any of the provisions or regulations of this

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