By section 15 of the act of March 3, 1875, 18 Stat. 402, c. 131, any Indian born in the United States, who was the head of a family or who had arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and who had abandoned or might thereafter abandon his tribal relations, was, on making satisfactory proof of such abandonment, entitled to the benefits of the...
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