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SMITH v. TOWNSEND

No. 1173.

148 U.S. 490 (1893)

13 S.Ct. 634

37 L.Ed. 533

SMITH, v. TOWNSEND.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 3, 1893.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.H. Garland and Mr. H.J. May for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Parker, Mr. John F. Stone, Mr. Charles A. Maxwell and Mr. George S. Chase for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

This case turns on the construction to be given to the acts of March 1 and 2, 1889, and the proclamation of the President of March 23, 1889. The act of March 1, 1889, 25 Stat. 757, 759, c. 317, was an act ratifying and confirming an agreement with the Muscogee (or Creek) Indians in the Indian Territory, whereby a large body of their lands had been ceded to the United States. The second section of the act was in...

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