Fee v. Brown

Citations

• 162 U.S. 602
• 16 S. Ct. 875
• 40 L. Ed. 1086
• 1896 U.S. LEXIS 2235

Syllabus

<p>•The reservations granted by provision “ First ” in § 1 of the act of December 19, 1854, c. 7, 10 Stat; 598, “to provide for the extinguishment of the title of the Chippewa Indians to the lands owned and claimed by them,” etc., are limited to the territory ceded by the Indians, both as applied to Indians of pure blood, and to Indians of mixed blood.</p> <p>The scrip certificates, under which the defendant in error claims, were intended to be located only by half-breeds to whom they were issued, and patents were to be issued only to the persons named in those certificates ; and, consequently, the right to alienate the lands was not given until after the issue of the patents.</p> <p>The act of June 8,1872, c. 357,17 Stat. 340, “ to perfect certain land titles,” etc., was intended to permit a purchaser of such scrip certificates! who through them had acquired an invalid title to public land, to perfect that title by compliance with the terms of that statute.</p>